Species Agatyrus burckhardti Chandler, 2001

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• Agatyrus burckhardti 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] [419].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Hobart, 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 2.3 mm. Vertexal foveae as large as frontal foveae, all setose; vertex flat, abruptly angled at laterally margins ventrally.
Male eyes with about 25 facets; protrochanters with broad, truncate ventral tubercle; profemora with 2 ventral tubercles in basal halves; meso- and metatibiae slightly and broadly curved, metatibiae with oblique spine on inner margin beyond middles; metatrochanters with prominent angulate spine near bases; meso- and metacoxae close, bluntly tuberculate between coxae. Abdomen with visible sternites 2-5 (IV-VII) broadly and shallowly impressed. Females unknown.

 

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] [419]

 

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)