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<emphasis id="B973EABDFFBB8275FF6771DD14B3FF45" bold="true" box="[151,395,151,178]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="524">Barryfilius centralis</emphasis>
(
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)
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,
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<paragraph id="8BB836AFFFBB8275FF6771F11416FF21" blockId="11.[151,815,151,214]" box="[151,302,187,214]" pageId="11" pageNumber="524">
(
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,
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)
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<emphasis id="B973EABDFFBB8275FF67704A1460FEEF" box="[151,344,256,280]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="524">Lepidiota centralis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF964B5EFFBB8275FEAE704A1735FEE0" author="Britton, E. B." box="[350,525,255,280]" pageId="11" pageNumber="524" pagination="1 - 150" refId="ref32215" refString="Britton, E. B. (1978) A revision of the Australian chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Vol. 2. Tribe Melolonthini. Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 60, 1 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 060" type="journal article" year="1978">Britton, 1978: 65</bibRefCitation>
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, figs. 197198 (aedeagus), fig. 282B (head and pronotum).
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<emphasis id="B973EABDFFBB8275FF67700B141BFEAD" bold="true" box="[151,291,320,347]" pageId="11" pageNumber="524">Type series.</emphasis>
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male: Alexandria [
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,
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<emphasis id="B973EABDFFBB8275FF3770C31403FE54" bold="true" box="[199,315,393,419]" pageId="11" pageNumber="524">Remarks.</emphasis>
I have not been able to locate the
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.
<bibRefCitation id="EF964B5EFFBB8275FCD970C216F2FE54" author="Britton, E. B." box="[809,970,392,419]" pageId="11" pageNumber="524" pagination="1 - 150" refId="ref32215" refString="Britton, E. B. (1978) A revision of the Australian chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Vol. 2. Tribe Melolonthini. Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 60, 1 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 060" type="journal article" year="1978">Britton (1978)</bibRefCitation>
listed it as in NHML, but it was not there in its marked place in
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. It was registered in ANICs list of primary types as ANIC 25-036366-358, but apparently was returned to NHML (T.A. Weir, personal communication).
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<emphasis id="B973EABDFFBB8275FF3770BE1402FDF9" bold="true" box="[199,314,500,526]" pageId="11" pageNumber="524">Diagnosis</emphasis>
(taken from
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).
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(
<bibRefCitation id="EF964B5EFFBB8275FD4A70BE1676FDF8" author="Britton, E. B." box="[698,846,500,527]" pageId="11" pageNumber="524" pagination="1 - 150" refId="ref32215" refString="Britton, E. B. (1978) A revision of the Australian chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Vol. 2. Tribe Melolonthini. Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 60, 1 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 060" type="journal article" year="1978">Britton 1978</bibRefCitation>
: fig. 282B). Body approximately
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long; bright red-brown, antennal lamellae pale yellow-brown. Terminal palpomere of maxillary palp not described. Clypeus with anterior face not described; upper surface transverse, width approximately 2.6x length, anterior margin straight in middle, with broadly rounded angles; upper surface densely clothed (approximately 90
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) with ovoid, shiny white scales. Frons clothed with scales of similar density at sides, scales less dense (70
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) in middle.Antennae with 10 antennomeres, antennomeres 6 and 7 discoidal, antennomeres 810 lamellate, approximately
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long. Pronotum transverse, greatest width 1.57x length; anterior margin narrow and defined, widest in middle, narrowed towards angles; lateral edges obtusely angulate in middle, straight and approximately parallel after; without a defined posterior margin; surface rather sparsely clothed with shiny white scales that are more broadly ovoid and denser towards edges, less dense (approximately 40
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) and narrower in middle. Scutellum with scales as on pronotal margins. Elytra sparsely and uniformly clothed with ovoid, shiny, white setae (approximately 15
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). Propygidium not described. Pygidium sparsely clothed with elliptical white, shiny scales that are moderately broad (2.5:1) towards sides and apex, narrow and pointed in middle towards the base. Ventral surface of thorax not described. Claws each with a sharply pointed tooth towards the base. Ventrites and legs sparsely clothed with scales. Aedeagus slightly asymmetrical, apices rounded and together forming an open heart shape in dorsal view (
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).
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<emphasis id="B973EABDFFBB8275FF37757F141DFBB8" bold="true" box="[199,293,1077,1103]" pageId="11" pageNumber="524">Female.</emphasis>
Unknown.
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<emphasis id="B973EABDFFBB8275FF3775131403FB84" bold="true" box="[199,315,1113,1139]" pageId="11" pageNumber="524">Remarks.</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF964B5EFFBB8275FEB5751214D2FB84" author="Britton, E. B." box="[325,490,1112,1139]" pageId="11" pageNumber="524" pagination="1 - 150" refId="ref32215" refString="Britton, E. B. (1978) A revision of the Australian chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Vol. 2. Tribe Melolonthini. Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 60, 1 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 060" type="journal article" year="1978">Britton (1978)</bibRefCitation>
used the term scales to describe the vestiture — I have not been able to verify their shape but suspect they should be termed setae and be mainly yellow with some broad or elongate, flattened, adpressed, white setae on the profemora and protibiae.
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Distribution (
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).
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Known only from a unique specimen purportedly collected at Alexandria Station on the Barkley Tableland in the Northern Territory; given as Alexandra in
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. I strongly suspect that the
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locality is incorrect, as it is
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west of the northeastern highlands of Queensland, where the other species in the genus occur and in a very different environment (Köppen-Geiger climate classification Bsh, hot semi-arid, rather than Af rainforest, Am monsoon or Cfa humid sub-tropical of the other species). It was collected by Wilfred Stalker, who was sent by William Ingram to Alexandria Station in 1905 primarily to collect birds, but then spent some time in 1907 at Inkerman Station (
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,
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) in the Lower Burdekin region, south of Townsville, Queensland (
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) and about
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southeast of the
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locality of
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(
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. Although Inkerman Station is on the coastal savannah plain, Stalker also collected on two nearby isolated peaks, Mount Elliot (
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) about halfway between Townsville and Inkerman, and Mount Abbott (
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) about
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southeast of Inkerman Station (
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) (
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). Both have areas of wet forest similar to those of northeastern Queensland, with Mount Elliot lying north of the Burdekin Gap (
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), which divides the northeastern Wet Tropics from the Central Mackay Coast. Townsville would have been the most logical place for Stalker to ship his specimens to
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and any collected during his stay at Inkerman could have been mixed with those from Alexandria. Stalker died in New
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a few years later without returning to
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, so would not have been able to check NHML labelling of the specimens he collected.
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<emphasis id="B973EABDFFBB8275FF37764F14BDF8E9" bold="true" box="[199,389,1796,1823]" pageId="11" pageNumber="524">Natural history.</emphasis>
Nothing is known of the natural history of this species.
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