Species Adelotopus multipunctatus Baehr, 1997

Museums

Regional Maps

• Adelotopus multipunctatus 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] [166].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Ferguson River, 31 km SEbyS of Pine Creek, NT [14°04'S 131°59'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, eucalyptus trees, myrmecophilous, predator, under bark, 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] [238] (new record)

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