Species Simodontus (Simodontus) holomelanus (Germar, 1848)

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• Pterostichus holomelanus Germar, E.F. 1848. Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Adelaide. Linnaea Entomologica 3: 153-247 [167].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, Adelaide, SA.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1930. Carabidae II: Harpalinae IV. pp. 529-738 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 112. [Date published 3/Jun/1930] [564].
• Simodontus orthomoides Chaudoir, M. de 1873. Matériaux pour servir à l'étude des Féroniens. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 46(2): 85-116 [111].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 7 specimens, Melbourne, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1895. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. VII New genera and species of Carabidae (including some notes on previously described species, and synoptic lists of genera and species). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 9: 393-455 [410]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial, woodland.

History of changes