Species Sarticus (Sarticus) cyaneocinctus (Chaudoir, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Feronia (Steropus) cyaneocincta 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 [97].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, N Australia.
• Feronia azureomarginata 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)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Lachlan and Hunter Rivers, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1937. Sui tipi dei Platysmatini (Coleop. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau, nel Museo Civico di Genova. II. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 59: 461-475 [461].
• Feronia saphyreomarginata 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)] [136].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Melbourne, VIC.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1937. Sui tipi dei Platysmatini (Coleop. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau, nel Museo Civico di Genova. II. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 59: 461-475 [461].

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 [595]
• Sloane, T.G. 1903. Studies in Australian Entomology. No XII New Carabidae (Panageini, Bembidiini, Pogonini, Platysmatini, Platynini, Lebiini, with revisional lists of genera and speecis [sic], some notes on synonymy, etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 566-642 [615]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), 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, low woodland, pastures, predator, 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]

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