Species Bolborhachium coronatum (Klug, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bolboceras coronatus Klug, J. 1843. Die Coleopteran-Gattungen: Athyreus und Bolboceras, dargestellt nach den in der Sammlung der hiesiger Königl. Universität davon vorhandenen Arten. Abhandlungen der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin 1843: 21-57 [42].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB 25656 ♀, Australia (as New Holland).
• Bolboceras capreolus 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 ♂, Swan River, WA (as Nova Hollandia).
• Bolboceras pentagonicum Lea, A.M. 1916. Notes on some miscellaneous Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. Part II. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 40: 272-436 [Date published Dec. 23, 1916] [285].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♀, Perth, WA.

 

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 [75]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW 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)