Species Onthophagus subocelliger Blackburn, 1903

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• Onthophagus subocelliger Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXIII. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 27(2): 261-309 [299].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂, NT.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA I292 2 specimens.

  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 [220]; 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 nanus Waterhouse, C.O. 1894. Scarabaeidae in the British Museum. A sixth contribution. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 14: 9-12 [12] [junior homonym of Onthophagus nanus Harold, 1871].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Sydney, NSW.
• Onthophagus waterhousei Boucomont, A. & Gillet, J.J.E. 1927. Scarabaeidae: Coprinae II. pp. 101-264 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus Lucanidae — Passalidae — Scarabaeidae I. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. XIX Pt 90. [217] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Onthophagus nanus Waterhouse, 1894].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown.

 

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 [219] (incorrectly placed subocelliger as a junior synonym of waterhousei)
• 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. [152] (stat. nov.)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: coprophagous, montane, terrestrial, volant, woodland.

Larva: coprophagous.

 

General References

Williams, G.A. & Williams, T. 1982. A survey of the Aphodiinae, Hybosorinae and Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from small wet forests of coastal New South Wales. Part 1: Nowra to Newcastle. Australian Entomological Magazine 9: 42-48 (distribution)

 

History of changes

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