Species Dipelicus bovilli (Blackburn, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Palmerstonia bovilli 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 [857].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Darwin (as Palmerston), NT.
• Dipelicus trifidus Arrow, G.J. 1937. Systematic notes on beetles of the subfamily Dynastinae, with descriptions of a few new species in the British Museum Collection (Coleoptera). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 86: 35-57 [48].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ ♀, Yule Is., PNG (as New Guinea).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carne, P.B. 1957. A Systematic Revision of the Australian Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Melbourne : CSIRO 284 pp. [120]

Generic Combinations

• Camelonotus bovilli (Blackburn, 1888). —
  Heller, K.M. 1897. Über Camelonotus Fairm., Horonotus Burm., Neodipelicus Rits., und Palmerstonia Blackb. Notes from the Letden Museum 19: 163-173 [167]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Dipelicus bowilli (Blackburn, 1888) [misspelling]. —
  Endrödi, S. 1971. Monographie der Dynastinae. Tribus: Pentodontini (papuanische und pazifische Inselwelt). (Coleoptera: Lamellicornia: Melolonthidae). Pacific Insects 13: 243-320 [292, 294, 299, 300, 320]
  Endrödi, S. 1974. Monographie der Dynastinae. 4. Tribus: Pentodontini von Australien und Neu-Zeeland (Coleoptera). Folia Entomologica Hungarica ns 27: 17-70 [31]
  Endrödi, S. 1985. The Dynastinae of the World. Hague : W. Junk 800 pp. [337, 343]
  Krajcik 2005. Dynastinae of the world, Checklist (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae). Plzen : Animma Vol. X, supl. 2 pp. 41-42. [42]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

NE coastal, NW coastal, N coastal, N Gulf, QLD, WA, NT; Torres Strait Ils, Melanesia: Papua New Guinea.

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: crepuscular, nocturnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

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

General References

Endrödi, S. 1971. Monographie der Dynastinae. Tribus: Pentodontini (papuanische und pazifische Inselwelt). (Coleoptera: Lamellicornia: Melolonthidae). Pacific Insects 13: 243-320 (distribution)

Williams, G.A. 1977. A list of the Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) collected from lights at Palm Cove and Ellis Beach, North Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 4: 4-6 (distribution)

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