Subspecies Australobolbus rotundatus rotundatus (Hope, 1842)

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• Bolboceras rotundatus Hope, F.W. 1842. Observations on the Coleoptera of Port Essington, in Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 9: 423-430 [Date published 1 Jul. 1842] [423].

  Type data:

   Lectotype OUM ♀, Port Essington, NT.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Howden, H.F. 1990. The Geotrupinae of New Guinea (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 3(3): 261-289 [publication dated 9 Feb. 1990] [284].
• Bolboceras sweerii Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [365].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♀, Sweers Is., QLD.
  Syntype(s) AM K29124, K29126, Sweers Island, QLD [17° 6' 8" S 139° 37' 8" E]
  Comment: Cassis, G. & Weir, T. A. 1992. Geotrupidae. pp. 41–64 in Houston, W. W. K. (ed). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Canberra : AGPS Vol. 9 [46] considered the reference to a lectotype in Britton, E.B. & Stanbury, P.J. 1981. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VIII. Insects: Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 105(1980): 241–293 [288] as incorrect.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Howden, H.F. 1992. A revision of the Australian beetle genera Eucanthus Westwood, Bolbobaineus Howden & Cooper, Australobolbus Howden & Cooper and Gilletinus Boucomont (Scarabaeidae: Geotrupinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6(3): 605-717 [687].

  Type locality references:

  Britton, E.B. & Stanbury, P.J. 1981. Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VIII. Insects: Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 105(4): 241-293; Cassis, G. & Weir, T. A. 1992. Geotrupidae. pp. 41-64 in Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Canberra : AGPS Vol. 9 544 pp.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Howden, H.F. 1992. A revision of the Australian beetle genera Eucanthus Westwood, Bolbobaineus Howden & Cooper, Australobolbus Howden & Cooper and Gilletinus Boucomont (Scarabaeidae: Geotrupinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6(3): 605-717 [687]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal, W plateau
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, subterranean, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: subterranean.

Extra Ecological Information

Humus and fungus feeders.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	02-Apr-2020	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
		12-Feb-2010	(import)