Species Notonomus variicollis (Chaudoir, 1865)
- Feronia (Notonomus) variicollis Chaudoir, M. de 1865. Essai sur les Féronides de l'Australie et de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 38(3-4): 65-112 [86].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP 8 specimens, Melbourne, VIC, doubtful locality as found only in NSW. - Feronia comes Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [121].
Type data:
Lectotype MCG, Clyde River, NSW.Subsequent designation references:
Straneo, S.L. 1936. Sui tipi dei Platysmatini (Coleopt. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau, nel Museo Civico di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 59: 246-259 [258].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Chaudoir, M. de 1874. Supplément à l'essai sur les Féronies de l'Australie publié dans le Bulletin des Naturalistes de Moscou en 1865 T. ii, p. 56, Accompangé d'observations sur la synonymie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 6: 569–601 [577]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Type locality and Clyde River.
IBRA
NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.
General References
Moore, B.P. & Wallbank, B.E. 1968. Chemical composition of the defensive secretion in carabid beetles and its importance as a taxonomic character. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 37(5–6): 62-72 [66]
Sloane, T.G. 1902. A revision of the genus Notonomus (Family Carabidae; sub-family Feronini). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27: 252-325 [283] (taxonomy)
History of changes
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