Species Onthophagus worooa Storey & Weir, 1990

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• Onthophagus worooa Storey, R.I. & Weir, T.A. 1990. New species of Onthophagus Latreille (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 3: 783-815 [786].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T10896 ♂, 27 km E of Forsayth, QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 6 specimens; ANIC(MMUS); QM; EUQ; SAMA
  Comment: 94 specimens, holdings between institutions not recorded.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

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

Larva: coprophagous.

Extra Ecological Information

At wallaby and cattle dung, sandy soil.

 

History of changes

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