Species Coptodactyla glabricollis (Hope, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Copris glabricollis Hope, F.W. 1842. Observations on the Coleoptera of Port Essington, in Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 9: 423-430 [Date published 1 Jul. 1842] [424].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM 453 1/2 ♀, Melville Is., NT.
• Coptodactyla baileyi Blackburn, T. 1890. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part V. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4(4): 1247-1276 [Date published Apr. 15, 1890] [1251].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Mt Bellenden-Ker, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Felsche, C. 1909. Neue und alte coprophage Scarabaeiden (Col.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1909: 751-765 [755]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Melanesia: Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: closed forest, coprophagous, open forest, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: coprophagous.

 

General References

Barbero, E. & Palestrini, V. 2003. Coleoptera Trogidae, Geotrupidae, Hybosoridae, Scarabaeidae (Scarabaeinae and Dynastinae) collected in Australia. pp. 303-328 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp. [314] (new record)

Houston, W.W.K. 1986. Exocrine glands in the forelegs of dung beetles in the genus Onitis F. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 25: 161-169 (morphology)

Matthews, E.G. 1976. A revision of the Scarabaeine dung beetles of Australia. III. Tribe Coprini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 38: 1-52 (extralimital distribution)

Wallace, M.M.H. 1986. Some macrochelid mites (Acari: Macrochelidae) associated with Australian dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Acarologia 27: 3-15 (mite symbiont)

 

History of changes

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