Species Saulostomus villosus Waterhouse, 1878

Museums

Regional Maps

• Saulostomus villosus Waterhouse, C.O. 1878. New Coleoptera from Australia and Tasmania, in the Collection of the British Museum. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1878(3): 225-237 [225].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Melbourne, VIC and TAS.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Hardy, R.J. 1976. Observations on the pasture beetle, Saulostomus villosus Waterhouse (Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 15: 281-284 (biology)

McQuillan, P.B. 1985. The identification of root-feeding cockchafer larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) found in pastures in Tasmania. Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 509-546 (larval description)

 

History of changes

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