Species Tooloom archaicus Chandler, 2001

Tooloom archaicus Chandler

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Species Tooloom archaicus Chandler, 2001

Tooloom archaicus Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [191].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Styx River State Forest, Cedar Pit Floral Reserve, 42 km SE Wollomombi, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

Diagnosis

Length 1.6-1.8 mm. Body with short setae appressed, with long suberect setae scattered over body. Head and pronotum coarsely granulate, both elongate. Head deeply and broadly transversely impressed between eyes; frontal rostrum prominent, only slightly depressed between antennal tubercles. Pronotum with median longitudinal impression on disc shallow; antebasal sulcus vague and interrupted by indistinct longitudinal ridges near lateral antebasal foveae. Abdomen with discal carinae of visible tergite 1 (IV) extending to middle, separated at base by one-third tergite width, impression between carinae setose primarily around the mediobasal foveae. Male eyes with about 50 facets; protibiae and mesotibiae lacking preapical spurs. Visible sternite 3 (V) with narrow glabrous basolateral excavations beneath apex of 2 (IV), 2 (IV) with small tufts of long setae at apical margin obscuring excavations. Female eyes with about 25 facets.

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [191]

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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