Species Blackbolbus taurus (Westwood, 1848)

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Regional Maps

• Bolboceras taurus Westwood, J.O. 1848. On the Australian species of the coleopterous genus Bolboceras Kirby. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2 2: 143-144 [144].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM 521 ♂, Swan River, WA.
• Bolboceras bubalus Gillet, J.J.E. 1925. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-1913. 40. Scarabaeidae: Geotrupinae et Coprinae. Arkiv för Zoologi 17(7): 1–16 [30 Jan. 1925] [2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHRM ♂, Leederville, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) NHRM ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Howden, H.F. 1985. A revision of the Australian beetle genera Bolboleaus Howden & Cooper, Blackbolbus Howden & Cooper, and Bolborhachium Boucomont (Scarabaeidae: Geotrupinae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 111: 1-179 [32].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Howden, H.F. 1985. A revision of the Australian beetle genera Bolboleaus Howden & Cooper, Blackbolbus Howden & Cooper, and Bolborhachium Boucomont (Scarabaeidae: Geotrupinae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 111: 1-179 [32]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: subterranean.

 

General References

Costa, M. & Allsopp, P.G. 1979. Gamasine mites associated with Australian scarabaeid beetles. I. The genus Paradoxiphis Berlese, symbionts of the Bolboceratini. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 825-865 (mite association)

 

History of changes

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