Species Onthophagus rubrimaculatus Macleay, 1864

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• Onthophagus rubrimaculatus Macleay, W.J. 1864. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera from Port Denison. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 106-130, pl. IX [122].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂, Bowen (as Port Denison), QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC 3♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Matthews, E.G. 1972. A revision of the Scarabaeine dung beetles of Australia. I. Tribe Onthophagini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 9: 1-330 [293]; Cassis, G. & Weir, T.A. 1992. In, Houston, W.W.K. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 9. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Canberra : AGPS xii 544 pp. (interpret the incorrect inference to a holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Onthophagus decurio Lansberge, G. van 1885. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Coléoptères appartenant au Musée Civique de Gênes. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 2: 375-400 [389].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♀, Somerset, Cape York (as Cap York), QLD.
• Onthophagus emarginatus Macleay, W.J. 1887. The insects of the Cairns district, northern Queensland. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2(2): 213-238 [Date published August 31, 1887: Second Series commenced 1886-87] [224] [junior homonym of Onthophagus emarginatus Mulsant, 1842].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂, Cairns, QLD.
• Onthophagus pseudoemarginatus Goidanich, A. 1926. Observazioni sopra il genre Onthophagus Latreille. VIII; IX. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 58: 76-77 [76] [nom. nov. for Onthophagus emarginatus Macleay, 1887].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Matthews, E.G. 1972. A revision of the Scarabaeine dung beetles of Australia. I. Tribe Onthophagini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 9: 1-330 [292]

 

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), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal
• Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: coprophagous, necrophagous, open forest, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: coprophagous.

Extra Ecological Information

Open pastures, at wallaby dung.

 

General References

Balthasar, V. 1969. Neue Onthophagus-Arten von Neu-Guinea und den benachbarten Inseln. (125. Beiträg zur Kenntnis der Scarabaeoidea, Col.). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 38: 361-408 (extralimital distribution)

Wallace, M.M.H. 1986. Some macrochelid mites (Acari: Macrochelidae) associated with Australian dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Acarologia 27: 3-15 (mite symbiont)

 

History of changes

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