Species Basistichus micans (Macleay, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Odacantha micans Macleay, W.J. 1864. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera from Port Denison. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 106-130, pl. IX [107].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 3 specimens (poor condition), Port Denison, QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Basistichus micans (Macleay, 1864). —
  Sloane, T.G. 1917. Carabidae from tropical Australia. (New genera and species, notes and synonymy, and synoptic tables. Tribes Scaritini, Harpalini, Odacanthini, Lebiini, and Helluonini). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42: 406-438 [415]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: litter, on the ground, predator, terrestrial, volant.

Diagnosis References

Baehr, M. 2005. A revision of the Australian Odacanthine ground beetles, including checklist for Australia and the Papuan subregion (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 50(2): 133-193 [141] (diagnosis)

General References

Baehr, M. 2005. A revision of the Australian Odacanthine ground beetles, including checklist for Australia and the Papuan subregion (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 50(2): 133-193 [141] (new records)

Sloane, T.G. 1917. Carabidae from tropical Australia. (New genera and species, notes and synonymy, and synoptic tables. Tribes Scaritini, Harpalini, Odacanthini, Lebiini, and Helluonini). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42: 406-438 [415] (taxonomy)

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