Species Gigadema bostocki Castelnau, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gigadema bostocki 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)] [20] [as bostockii ].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 4 specimens, north WA.
• Gigadema intermedium Gestro, R. 1875. Note sopra alcuni Carabici appartenenti al Museo Civico di Genova con descrizione di specie nuove. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 1 7(2): 850-894 [877].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG, Lachlan River, NSW.
• Gigadema eremita Blackburn, T. 1892. Scientific results of the Elder Exploring Expedition: Coleoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 16: 16-61 [17].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 1 specimen located, should be both sexes, Fraser Range, WA.
• Gigadema longicolle Blackburn, T. 1901. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXIX. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 25: 99-131 [101].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♀, Oodnadatta, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1914. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part v. Tribe Helluonini. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 568-614 [605]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, predator, terrestrial, under bark, volant.

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