Species Sphaeridium discolor Orchymont, 1933

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sphaeridium discolor Orchymont, A. d' 1933. Contribution à l'étude des Palpicornia VIII. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 73: 271-314 pl. 5 [298].
• Sphaeridium discolor seminiger Mouchamps, R. 1958. Remarques concernant quelques Coléoptéres Hydrophilides (15me étude). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 94: 249-260 [257] [as Sphaeridium discolor ab seminiger infrasubspecific, unavailable (Art. 45.6.2)].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: decaying organic matter, omnivore, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: predator.

Extra Ecological Information

Mainly cattle dung.

History of changes