Species Washpool pristinus Chandler, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Washpool pristinus 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] [141].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Dorrigo National Park, 8 km E Dorrigo, Blackbutt Trail, NSW.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

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 1.8-1.9 mm. Body smooth. Head with V-shaped vertexal sulcus distinct though broad, vertexal foveae nude; base with short median carina. Pronotum with antebasal sulcus often faint between antebasal foveae; portion of pronotum posterior to antebasal sulcus more rugose than disc. Abdomen with visible tergite 1 (IV) as long as tergites of following 3 segments combined. Legs with second tarsomeres slightly longer than third tarsomeres. Males lacking secondary modifications of body; large-eyed males with fully developed wings, eyes formed by about 60 facets; small-eyed males with eyes formed by about 10 facets, lacking fully developed wings, humeral angles less developed. Females with eyes formed by about 10 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] [141]

 

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)