Species Cephalodesmius armiger Westwood, 1842

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• Cephalodesmius armiger Westwood, J. O. 1842. Descriptions of the Australian species of Lamellicorn Beetles, belonging to the family of the Sacred Beetles. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 66-67 [66].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Australia (as New Holland).
• Cephalodesmius minor Blackburn, T. 1900. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXVI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24: 35-68 [Date published Aug. 1900] [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Richmond River, NSW.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Matthews, E.G. 1974. A revision of the Scarabaeine dung beetles of Australia. II. Tribe Scarabaeini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 24: 1-211 [36]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: coprophagous, flightless, tall open forest, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae feed on brood pellets made from fallen leaves and flowers, adults flightless.

 

General References

Monteith, G.B. & Storey, R.I. 1981. The biology of Cephalodesmius, a genus of dung beetles which synthesizes "dung" from plant material (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20: 253-277 (biology)

Paulian, R., Lumaret, J.-P. & Monteith, G.B. 1983. La larve du genre Cephalodesmius Westwood (Col. Scarabaeidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 88: 635-648 (larval description)

Williams, G.A. & Williams, T. 1982. A survey of the Aphodiinae, Hybosorinae and Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from small wet forests of coastal New South Wales. Part 1: Nowra to Newcastle. Australian Entomological Magazine 9: 42-48 (distribution)

Williams, G.A. & Williams, T. 1983. A survey of the Aphodiinae, Hybosorinae and Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from small wet forests of coastal New South Wales, Part 2: Barrington Tops to the Comboyne Plateau. Victorian Naturalist 100: 25-30 (distribution)

 

History of changes

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