Species Blackburnium carpentariae (Macleay, 1873)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bolboceras carpentariae Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [364].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM K29102 ♂, Sweer's Island, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) AM 1 specimen; ANIC 2 specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Howden, H.F. 1979. A revision of the Australian genus Blackburnium Boucomont (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae : Geotrupinae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 72: 1–88 [26].
• Bolboceras albertisi Harold, E. von 1877. Enumération des Lamellicornes Coprophages rapportés de l'Archipel Malais, de la Nouvelle Guinée et de l'Australie boréale par M.M.J. Doria, O. Beccari et L.M. D'Albertis. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 10: 38-110 [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♂, Somerset, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Howden, H.F. & Cooper, J.B. 1977. The generic classification of the Bolboceratini of the Australian Region, with descriptions of four new genera (Scarabaeidae : Geotrupinae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 50: 1–50 [19 Aug. 1977] [22]

 

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), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae and adults subterranean, humus and fungus feeders.

 

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)