Acheilo capitalis
| Acheilo capitalis | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Acheilo |
| Species: | A. capitalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Acheilo capitalis (Thomas Blackburn, 1910) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Acheilo capitalis is a species of scarab beetle in the subfamily Melolonthinae. It is found in Australia (Queensland).[1][2][3]
Taxonomy
[edit]The species was first described by Thomas Blackburn in 1910 as Heteronyx capitalis.[4] It was later transferred to the genus Acheilo by Everard Baldwin Britton in his 1988 synopsis of Australian Heteronycini.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Acheilo capitalis". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
- ↑ "Acheilo capitalis". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
- ↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Acheilo capitalis at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2026-01-16). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved June 25, 2026.
- ↑ "Acheilo capitalis (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.
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