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Acheilo pedarius

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Acheilo pedarius
Scientific classification Edit this 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
  • Heteronyx pedarius Blackburn, 1910

Acheilo pedarius is a species of scarab beetle in the subfamily Melolonthinae. It is found in Australia.[1][2]

Taxonomy

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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

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  1. "Acheilo pedarius". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Biological Resources Study. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
  2. "Acheilo pedarius". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
  3. "Acheilo pedarius (Blackburn, 1910)". GBIF. Retrieved 25 June 2026.
  4. 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.