Species Onitis aygulus (Fabricius, 1781)

Museums

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• Scarabaeus aygulus Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species insectorum, exhibentes eorum differentias specificas, synonyma auctorum, loca natalia, metamorphosin adiectis observationibus, descriptionibus. Hamburg et Kilonii : C. E. Bonn Vol. 1 viii + 552 pp. [Date published March 1781: Evenhuis 1997] [15].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Cape of Good Hope, S Africa.

  Type locality references:

  Ferreira, M.C. 1969. Os Escarabídeos de África (Sul do Sáara). I. Revue d'Entomologie de Moçambique 11: 1-1088 pls 1-288, Annexo 1-44 [434].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Afrotropical Region.

Introduced from South Africa.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: coprophagous, crepuscular, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: coprophagous.

Extra Ecological Information

Open areas, pastures, mainly cattle dung.

 

General References

Ferreira, M.C. 1978. The genus Onitis F. of Africa south of the Sahara (Scarabaeidae, Coleoptera). Memoirs Nasionale Museum, Bloemfontein Bloemfontein 10: xvi 1-410 (taxonomy)

Halffter, G. & Edmonds, W.D. 1982. The Nesting Behaviour of Dung Beetles (Scarabaeinae). An Ecological and Evolutive Approach. Mexico : Instituto de Ecología 176 pp. (biology)

Halliday, R.B. 1986. Mites of the genus Glyptholaspis Filipponi and Pegazzano (Acarina: Macrochelidae) in Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 25: 71-74 (mite symbiont)

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)

Janssens, A. 1937. Revision des Onitides (Coleoptera: Lamellicornia). Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 12 11: 1-200 [70]

 

History of changes

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