Species Aphodius lividus (Olivier, 1789)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scarabaeus lividus Olivier, A.G. 1789. Entomologique, ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur figure enluminée. Coléoptères. Paris : Baudonin Vol. 1 497 pp. 63 pls. [86].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Paris, France.

  Type locality references:

  Chapin, E.A. 1940. A revision of the West Indian beetles of the scarabaeid subfamily Aphodiinae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 89: 1-41 [6].
• Aphodius cincticulus Hope, F.W. 1847. Descriptions of various Coleopterous insects from New Holland, collected chiefly by Mr. Fortnum, at Adelaide. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4: 280-285 [publication date established from Musgrave, A. 1932. Bibliography of Australian Entomology 1775–1930 with biographical notes on authors and collectors. Sydney : R. Zool. Soc. N.S.W. viii 380 pp. [154]] [284].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, OUM, Adelaide, SA.
• Aphodius spilopterus Germar, E.F. 1848. Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Adelaide. Linnaea Entomologica 3: 153-247 [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ♂, Adelaide, SA.
• Aphodius (Nialus) pseudolividus Balthasar, V. 1941. Gli Scarabeidi coprofagi e Trogini dell'Africa orient. ital. del Museo di Milano. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali 80: 103-154 [148].

  Type data:

   Holotype MSNM, Paraguay.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Schmidt, A. 1922. Das Tierreich. Coleoptera Aphodiinae. Berlin und Leipzig : Walter de Gruyter & Co. 614 pp. [316]
• Woodruff, R.E. 1973. The Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas. Volume 8. The Scarab Beetles of Florida (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Part 1. The Laparosticti (Subfamilies: Scarabaeinae, Aphodiinae, Hybosorinae, Ochodaeinae, Geotrupinae, Acanthocerinae). Gainesville : Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Bureau of Entomology. Contribution No. No. 260, 220 pp. [94]
• Stebnicka, Z.T. & Howden, H.F. 1995. Revision of Australian genera in the tribes Aphodiini, Aegialiini and Proctophanini (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Aphodiinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 9: 709–766 [714]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, S Gulfs
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: coprophagous, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: coprophagous.

 

General References

Halffter, G. & Matthews, E.G. 1966. The natural history of dung beetles of the subfamily Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Folia Entomologica Mexicana 12–14: 1-312 (biology)

Jerath, M.L. 1960. Notes on the larvae of nine genera of Aphodiinae in the United States (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 111: 43-94 (larva)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)