Species Adelotopus laevis Macleay, 1888

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• Adelotopus laevis Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of King's Sound and its vicinity. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 443-480 [460].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) poor condition, King Sound, WA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Baehr, M. 1997. Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian Region. 2. The genera Pseudomorpha Kirby, Adelotopus Hope, Cainogenion Notman, Paussotropus Waterhouse, and Cryptocephalomorpha Ritsema. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Spixiana (Munich) Supplement 23: 508 pp. [Date published 1/Apr/1997] [250].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, eucalyptus trees, myrmecophilous, predator, under bark, viviparous, volant.

General References

Baehr, M. 2009. New and rare species of the pseudomorphine genera Sphallomorpha Westwood, Adelotopus Hope, and Pseudomorpha Kirby mainly from far Northern Territory, Australia (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pseudomorphinae). Spixiana (Munich) 32(2): 231-253 [Date published 30-XI-2009] [239] (new records)

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