Species Bembidion (Australoemphanes) blackburni Csiki, 1928

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bembidion blackburni Csiki, E. 1928. Carabidae II: Mormolycinae, Harpalinae I. pp. 1-226 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 97. [Date published 12/Dec/1928] [159] [nom. nov. for Bembidium dubium Blackburn, 1888].
• Bembidium dubium Blackburn, T. 1888. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 36-51 [43] [junior homonym of Bembidium dubium Heer, 1841].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH, near Port Lincoln, Murray River and Finnis River, SA; SAMA 1 specimen, near Port Lincoln, Murray River and Finnis River, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Csiki, E. 1928. Carabidae II: Mormolycinae, Harpalinae I. pp. 1-226 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 97. [Date published 12/Dec/1928] [159]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, openheath, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Moore, B.P. 1987. Suborder Adephaga. pp. 17-366 in Houston, W.W.K. & Richardson, B.J.R. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 viii 444 pp. [134] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement in subgenus Ananotaphus)

Toledano, L. 2005. The Australian species of Bembidion Latreille, 1802: a taxonomic treatment, with notes about Gondwana as an evolutionary source area (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Bembidiini). pp. 73-136 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. II. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 42, 644 pp. [99] (revision, new records)

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