Species Australicapitona australasiae (Hope, 1842)

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• Megacephala australasiae Hope, F.W. 1842. Observations on the Coleoptera of Port Essington, in Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 9: 423-430 [Date published 1 Jul. 1842] [425].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♂, Port Essington, NT.
• Megacephala (Tetracha) humeralis Macleay, W.J. 1863. Descriptions of twenty new species of Australian Coleoptera, belonging to the families Cicindelidae and Cetoniidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 9-21 [9].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 3 specimens, Port Denison, QLD; AM 2 specimens, Port Denison, QLD.
• Tetracha australasiae nickerli Srnka, A. 1895. Tetracha australiasiae Hope var. nickerli. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1895: 269 [269].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMPC, Cooktown, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Horn, W. 1926. Carabidae: Cicindelinae. pp. 1-345 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 1 Pars 86. [Date published 10/May/1926] [70]

Generic Combinations

• Australicapitona australasiae (Hope, 1842).

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), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nocturnal, predator, riparian, terrestrial.

Larva: burrower, predator.

History of changes