Species Ataenius walkeri Blackburn, 1904

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• Ataenius walkeri Blackburn, T. 1904. Revision of the Australian Aphodiides, and descriptions of three new species allied to them. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 17: 145-181 [170].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, NT (as N Territory of S Australia).
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1 specimen.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Stebnicka, Z.T. & Howden, H.F. 1997. Revision of the Australian species of Ataenius Harold (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Aphodiinae: Eupariini). Invertebrate Taxonomy 11(5): 735–821 [809].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

History of changes

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