Species Carneodon laevis (Burmeister, 1847)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pimelopus laevis Burmeister, H.C.C. 1847. Handbuch der Entomologie. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Xylophila et Pectinicornia. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 5 viii 584 pp. [176].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MLUH ♀, WA (as Westaustralien).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Endrödi, S. 1974. Monographie der Dynastinae. 4. Tribus: Pentodontini von Australien und Neu-Zeeland (Coleoptera). Folia Entomologica Hungarica ns 27: 17-70 [18].
• Isodon novitius Blackburn, T. 1897. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 21: 28-39 [Date published Jul. 31, 1897] [28].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH ♂, Geraldton, WA; SAMA ♂ ♀, Geraldton, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carne, P.B. 1957. A Systematic Revision of the Australian Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Melbourne : CSIRO 284 pp. [48]

Generic Combinations

• Carneodon laevis (Burmeister, 1847). —
  Özdikmen, H. 2009. Nomenclatural changes for five preoccupied scarab beetle genus group names (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Munis Entomology & Zoology 4(1): 139-147 [141]
• Neodon laevis (Burmeister, 1847).

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

SW coastal, NW coastal, WA.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: crepuscular, nocturnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae and adults subterranean and burrowing, larvae humus/plant root-feeder.

History of changes