Species Temnoplectron boucomonti Paulian, 1934

Museums

Regional Maps

• Temnoplectron boucomonti Paulian, R. 1934. Essai sur les Canthonides de la Région australienne (Col. Lamellicornia). I. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 39: 275-288 [285].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Anva River, Owgarra, PNG.
• Temnoplectron laevigatum Matthews, E.G. 1974. A revision of the Scarabaeine dung beetles of Australia. II. Tribe Scarabaeini. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 24: 1-211 [151].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, 1–27 km N of Adelaide River, NT.
  Paratype(s) AM 1 specimen; ANIC 119 specimens; SAMA 2 specimens (14 seen); UWA 4 specimens.
• Temnoplectron yuleanum Balthasar, V. 1965. Eine Neue Untergattung und Neue Arten der Familie Scarabaeidae (Col.). (121. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Scarabaeoidea). Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 62: 14-23.

  Type data:

   Holotype NMPC, Yule Is., PNG.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Reid, C.A.M. & Storey, R.I. 2000. Revision of the dung beetle genus Temnoplectron Westwood (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeini). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46(1): 253-297 [266]

 

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), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: coprophagous, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: coprophagous.

 

General References

Barbero, E. & Palestrini, V. 2003. Coleoptera Trogidae, Geotrupidae, Hybosoridae, Scarabaeidae (Scarabaeinae and Dynastinae) collected in Australia. pp. 303-328 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp. [313] (new records)

 

History of changes

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