Species Temnoplectron laeve (Castelnau, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hyboma laeve Castelnau, F.L. Laporte de 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères, avec une introduction renfermant l'anatomie et la physiologie des animaux articulés, par M. Brullé. Paris : P. Duménil Vol. 2 563 pp. [74].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, OUM (presumed lost, see 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 [277]), locality unknown.
• Temnoplectron laeve Waterhouse, C.O. 1874. Descriptions of three new species of Scarabaeidae from Australia and Japan. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 10: 175-176 [175].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♀, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Paulian, R. 1938. Contribution a l'étude des canthonides américains (Col. Lamellic.). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 107: 213-296 [242]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: closed forest, coprophagous, montane, open forest, tall open forest, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: coprophagous.

 

History of changes

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