Species Dipelicus optatus (Sharp, 1875)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Horonotus optatus Sharp, D. 1875. Description de Coléoptères (Lamellicornes) nouveaux de l'Australie. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 3 3: 37-50 [49].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♂, Cape York, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Endrödi, S. 1971. Monographie der Dynastinae. Tribus: Pentodontini (papuanische und pazifische Inselwelt). (Coleoptera: Lamellicornia: Melolonthidae). Pacific Insects 13: 243-320 [309].
• Horonotus variolicollis Fairmaire, L. 1879. Diagnoses de coléoptères Australiens et Polynésiens. Le Naturaliste 1: 46-100 [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Bowen, QLD.
• Palmerstonia minor Blackburn, T. 1894. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XV. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 139-168 [139].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I2286 ♀, N QLD.
• Palmerstonia pusilla Blackburn, T. 1896. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 20: 233-259 [253].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA I2287 2♂, N QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Carne, P.B. 1957. A Systematic Revision of the Australian Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Melbourne : CSIRO 284 pp. [119]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: crepuscular, nocturnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

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

 

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. [321] (new records; first records from NT)

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)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		05-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)