Species Australobolbus subretusus (Blackburn, 1904)

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• Bolboceras subretusum Blackburn, T. 1904. A revision of the Australian species of Bolboceras, with descriptions of new species (Coleoptera, Fam. Scarabaeidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 29: 481-526 [518].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, NW Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 5 specimens, NW Australia; SAMA 4 specimens, NW Australia.

  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 [637].

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, W plateau

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)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)