Species Tyrogetus occidentalis Chandler, 1987

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tyrogetus occidentalis Chandler, D.S. 1987. New genera and species of Tyrini from Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94: 15-34 [17].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (//Tasmania, Mt. Field Nat. Park, near SE end Lake Fenton, 1000m, I-30/II-5-1980, A. Newton & M. Thayer, Nothofagus gunnii-Richea spp.- Arthrotaxis spp.-Phyllocladus asplen. forest//), Mt Field National Park, nr SE end Lake Fenton, TAS.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

Diagnosis

Length 1.68-1.77 mm. Body with moderately dense appressed setae; maxillary palpi with last segment angulate and directed laterally in apical two-thirds, abruptly swollen at point of angulation; eyes with about 15 facets; elytra with discal stria extending past middle; tergite I twice length of II, II as long as IV, III three-fourths length of II, V with narrowly truncate apex, apex slightly indented; protrochanters with stout swollen ventral knob, profemora with flattened carina on inner margin from near base to middle, protibia with small spur at apex. Males with sternites II-IV flattened medially, V with shallow longitudinal groove. Females with sternites II-V medially convex.

 

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 1987. New genera and species of Tyrini from Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94: 15-34 [17]

 

History of changes

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