Species Onthophagus binodis Thunberg, 1818

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• Onthophagus binodis Thunberg, C.P. 1818. Coleoptera Capensia antennis lamellatis, sive dava fissili instructa. Mémoires de l'Academie Imperial de la Société des Sciences, Saint Pétersburg 6: 395-450 [407].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, ZIUU, Cape Province, S Africa.

  Secondary source:

   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 [577].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Afrotropical Region.

Introduced from South Africa.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: coprophagous, diurnal, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: coprophagous.

 

General References

Barkhouse, J. & Ridsdill Smith, T.J. 1986. Effect of soil moisture on brood ball production by Onthophagus binodis Thunberg and Euoniticellus intermedius (Reiche) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 25: 75-78 (biology)

Bornemissza, G.F. 1976. The Australian dung beetle project 1965–1975. Australian Meat Research Committee Review 1976: 1-30 (biological control)

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 [577] (extralimital synonymy)

Halffter, G. & Matthews, E.G. 1966. The natural history of dung beetles of the subfamily Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Folia Entomologica Mexicana 12–14: 1-312 (distribution)

Ridsdill Smith, T.J. 1981. Some effects of three species of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in south-western Australia on the survival of the bush fly, Musca vetustissima Walker (Diptera: Muscidae), in dung pads. Bulletin of Entomological Research 71: 425-433 (biology)

Ridsdill Smith, T.J. 1986. The effect of seasonal changes in cattle dung on egg production by two species of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in south-western Australia. Bulletin of Entomological Research 76: 63-68 (biology)

Ridsdill Smith, T.J., Hall, G.P. & Craig, G.F. 1982. Effect of population density on reproduction and dung dispersal by the dung beetle Onthophagus binodis in the laboratory. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 32: 80-85 (biology)

 

History of changes

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