Diphyrrhynchus halorageos ( Montrouzier, 1860 )

Soldati, Laurent, Kergoat, Gael J. & Condamine, Fabien L., 2012, Preliminary report on the Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) collected during the SANTO 2006 expedition to Vanuatu, with description of a new species of the genus Uloma Dejean, 1821, Zoosystema 34 (2), pp. 305-317 : 308

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2012n2a8
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5171482
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5C3A8797-E50B-9357-2262-FCA07608FA4E
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Diphyrrhynchus halorageos ( Montrouzier, 1860 )
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Treatment

Diphyrrhynchus halorageos ( Montrouzier, 1860)

Acanthosternus halorageos Montrouzier, 1860: 290 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vanuatu. Espiritu Santo Isl., Luganville, Surunda beach, seashore, 8.X.2006, leg. L. Soldati, 10 ♂♂, 24 ♀♀ ( MNHN), 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ (coll. LS). — Espiritu Santo Isl., Big Bay, Matantas, Vatthe Area Conservation, 12-17.X.2006, leg. L. Soldati, 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀ ( MNHN).

DISTRIBUTION. — New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, île des Pins, Vanuatu and Australia ( Kaszab 1982b).

REMARKS

As its specific epithet suggests, this little nocturnal darkling beetle lives in the coastal sand and hides during the day at the base of Haloragis prostrata J. R. Forst. & G. Forst.