Species Notonomus wilcoxii (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Feronia wilcoxii 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)] [125] (p. 211 in the separate).

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Clarence 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 [259].
• Feronia (Notonomus) subopacus Chaudoir, 1865.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP ♀ found, ♂ and ♀ not found, Clarence River, NSW.

  Secondary source:

   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 [586].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Moore, B.P., Weir, T.A. & Pyke, J.E. 1987. Rhysodidae and Carabidae. pp. 17–320 in Houston, W.W.K. & Richardson, B.J.R. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 viii 444 pp. [119]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

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 [301]

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 [259] (gives precedence to Feronia wilcoxii Cast. without explanation)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Apr-2019	CARABIDAE Latreille, 1802	06-Feb-2019	MODIFIED
13-Aug-2013		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)