Species Blackburnium tatei (Blackburn, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bolboceras tatei Blackburn, T. 1888. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 805-875 [842].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, NT (as NT of SA).
• Bolboceras bovilli 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 [503].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, NT (as NT of SA).

 

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] [23]

 

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), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae and adults subterranean, humus and fungus feeders.

 

History of changes

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