Tesserodon angulatus Westwood, 1842

Cupello, Mario, Bouchard, Patrice, Hart, Maximillian & Barclay, Maxwell V. L., 2025, The nomenclature of the Australasian dung beetle genera Mentophilus Castelnau, 1840 and Tesserodon Hope, 1837 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), Zootaxa 5659 (4), pp. 483-510 : 498

Tesserodon angulatus Westwood, 1842

Tessarodon angulatus Westwood, 1842:50 . Name-bearing type: Male holotype by inferred monotypy, in the Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford, UK ( Westwood 1842, 1845; Matthews 1974). Type locality: Swan River area, in southwest Western Australia ( Westwood 1842, 1845; Matthews 1974). Remarks: Even though Westwood (1842) did not mention how many specimens he saw for the original description, Matthews (1974) treated the only type specimen he found in the Oxford Museum as the holotype. We accept this interpretation. The type locality was originally called into question by Westwood (1842), who cited it as “ New Holland. Swan River?”; later, he reemphasized his doubts ( Westwood 1845). Matthews (1974), however, was more confident about the accuracy of the record, as the only other specimen with a precise location known to him (and, to this day, ever recorded in the literature) came from the same general area, King George Sound, Albany, Western Australia. We follow him.

Distribution: Southwestern tip of Western Australia ( Matthews 1974).