Species Onthophagus bulga Reid & Runagall-McNaull, 2022

Museums

Regional Maps

• Onthophagus bulga Reid, C.A.M. & Runagall-McNaull, A. 2022. A revision of the Onthophagus pexatus species-group, with description of a new brachypterous species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Records of the Australian Museum 74(5): 131-150 [134].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMS K.397166 ♂ (676 m 4–5.ii.2021 Reid & Runagall-McNaull), Biriwal Bulga National Park, NSW [31.5520°S 152.2395°E].
  Paratype(s) AMS K.397153-165, K.397167, K.397239-245, K.397253 18, various locations.

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Onthophagus NSW4. —
  Reid, C., Runagall-McNaull, A., Cassis, G. and Laffan, S. 2022. The impact of the 2019–2020 wildfires on beetles (Coleoptera) in the forests of north-eastern New South Wales. Australian Zoologist 42(2): 462-478

 

Introduction

One of only two brachypterous species (along with O. apterus) of the more than 200 species of Onthophagus in Australia

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Wet and dry sclerophyll forest of central northeast NSW, from around Carrai south to Barakee Natioal Park, NSW

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC)

Ecological Descriptors

Brachypterous, coprophagous, flightless.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Scarabaeinae	05-Feb-2024	ADDED