Acheilo pedarius
| Acheilo pedarius | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Acheilo |
| Species: | A. pedarius |
| Binomial name | |
| Acheilo pedarius (Blackburn, 1910) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Acheilo pedarius is a species of scarab beetle in the subfamily Melolonthinae. It is found in Australia.[1][2]
Taxonomy
The species was first described by Thomas Blackburn in 1910 as Heteronyx pedarius.[3] It was later transferred to the genus Acheilo by Everard Baldwin Britton in his 1988 synopsis of Australian Heteronycini.[4]
References
- ↑ "Acheilo pedarius". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
- ↑ "Acheilo pedarius". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
- ↑ "Acheilo pedarius (Blackburn, 1910)". GBIF. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
- ↑ Britton, E. B. (1988). "Synopsis of the genera of Australian Heteronycini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)". Journal of the Australian Entomological Society. 27 (1): 27–36. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1988.tb01139.x.