Species Gilletinus flavocastaneus (Lea, 1924)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bolboceras corrugatum flavocastaneum Lea, A.M. 1924. On some Australian Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 49: 283-312 [286].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM ♂, Brisbane, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) QM, Buderim Mtn, QLD; SAMA, Mapleton, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Howden, H.F. 1992. A revision of the Australian beetle genera Eucanthus Westwood, Bolbobaineus Howden & Cooper, Australobolbus Howden & Cooper and Gilletinus Boucomont (Scarabaeidae: Geotrupinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6(3): 605-717 [700].

 

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), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), 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: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, subterranean, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: subterranean.

Extra Ecological Information

Humus and fungus feeders.

 

General References

Howden, H.F. & Cooper, J.B. 1977. The generic classification of the Bolboceratini of the Australian Region, with descriptions of four new genera (Scarabaeidae : Geotrupinae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 50: 1–50 [19 Aug. 1977] [15] (Bolboceras corrugatum flavocastaneum raised to species level)

 

History of changes

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