Species Blackburnium reichei (Guérin-Méneville, 1838)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bolboceras reichei Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1838. Insectes du voyage de la Favorite. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 8(Nr 225–238): 1-80 [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Swan River, WA.
• Bolboceras cornigerum Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [363] [junior homonym of Bolboceras conigerus Melsheimer, 1846].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂, Swan River, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) AM K81949 ♂, Swan River, WA [32° 1' 15" S 115° 46' 13" E]; ANIC(MMUS) ♂ 2♀.

  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 [40].
• Blackburnium bifoveatum Howden, H.F. 1954. Notes on Australian beetles in the tribe Bolboceratini formerly in the genus Bolboceras. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 79: 142-144 [144] [nom. nov. for Bolboceras cornigerum Macleay, 1873].

 

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

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae and adults subterranean, humus feeders, one case of adult feeding on fungus.

 

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)

Williams, G.A. 1977. A list of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) collected from lights at Palm Cove and Ellis Beach, North Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 4: 4-6 (distribution)

 

History of changes

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