Species Booloumba inflatacephalus Chandler, 2001
- Booloumba inflatacephalus 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] [311].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Lamington National Park, O'Reillys, QLD.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
IBRA
NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: predator, terrestrial.
Diagnosis
Length 1.6-1.8 mm. Body with short, sparse appressed setae, denser on abdomen. Head wider than pronotum; ventrolateral margins beneath eyes slightly angulate; with wide C-shaped setose sulci splitting ventrolateral carinae from mandibular bases to ventral margins of eyes. Male eyes with about 20 facets; with head vertex broadly convex, medially flattened and sloping anterior to eyes, with median recurved tubercle at anterior margin between antennal insertions. Metasternum broadly and longitudinally impressed through length, with tufts of thick curved setae at apical margin of metasternum adjacent to inner margins of metacoxae. Female eyes with about 20 facets.
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] [311]
History of changes
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