• Broschidae Hope, F.W. 1838. The Coleopterist's Manual, containing the predaceous and water beetles of Linneus and Fabricius. London : Henry G. Bohn Vol. 2 xvi 168 pp. 4 pls. [80].

  Type genus:

   Broscus Panzer, 1813.

General References

Roig-Juñent, S.A. 2000. The subtribes and genera of the tribe Broscini (Coleoptera: Carabidae): cladistic analysis, taxonomic treatment and biogeographical considerations. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 255: 1-90

History of changes

• Creobitae Jeannel, R. 1941. Coléoptères Carabiques. Première partie. Faune de France 39: 1-571 [287] [as a subfamily].

  Type genus:

   Creobius Guérin-Ménéville, 1838.

History of changes

• Acallistus Sharp, D. 1886. On New Zealand Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 2 3: 351–457 pls 12–13 [362].

  Type species:

   Acallistus simplex Sharp, 1886 (junior synonym of Promecoderus tasmanicus Castelnau, 1867) by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Britton, E.B. 1949. The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of New Zealand. Part III. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77: 533-581 [537].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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)

History of changes

• Promecoderus cuprescens Sloane, T.G. 1920. The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 113-178 [127].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SAMA 2 specimens, Cradle Mt. and Waratah, TAS; ANIC (Sloane coll.) 2 specimens, Cradle Mt. and Waratah, TAS; NMV 2 specimens, Cradle Mt. and Waratah, TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Acallistus cuprescens (Sloane, 1920).

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Lower Gordon River, Waldheim and type localities.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus longus Sloane, T.G. 1920. The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 113-178 [127].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 2♂, Launceston and Zeehan, TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Acallistus longus (Sloane, 1920).

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Hastings, Florentine Valley, Lake St Clair and type locality.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus plebius Sloane, T.G. 1920. The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 113-178 [128].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA, Ben Lomond, TAS.

Generic Combinations

• Acallistus plebius (Sloane, 1920).

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus tasmanicus Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [80].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 8 specimens, TAS.
• Acallistus simplex Sharp, D. 1886. On New Zealand Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Scientific Transactions of the Royal Dublin Society 2 3: 351–457 pls 12–13 [362].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Australia.

  Type locality references:

  Britton, E.B. 1949. The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of New Zealand. Part III. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77: 533-581 [537].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Britton, E.B. 1949. The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of New Zealand. Part III. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77: 533-581 [537]

Generic Combinations

• Acallistus tasmanicus (Castelnau, 1867).

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Hastings and Mt Field.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Adotela Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [88].

  Type species:

   Adotela concolor Castelnau, 1867 by subsequent designation, see Roig-Juñent, S.A. 2000. The subtribes and genera of the tribe Broscini (Coleoptera: Carabidae): cladistic analysis, taxonomic treatment and biogeographical considerations. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 255: 1-90 [55].Adotela concolor Castelnau, 1867 by included Species.Adotela esmeralda Castelnau, 1867 by included Species.
• Parroa Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [87] [invalid name; no type species designated].

  Type species (included species):

   Parroa grandis Castelnau, 1867; Parroa howittii Castelnau, 1867; Parroa violoacea Castelnau, 1867; Parroa carbonaria Castelnau, 1867; Parroa bicolor Castelnau, 1867

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Roig-Juñent, S.A. 2000. The subtribes and genera of the tribe Broscini (Coleoptera: Carabidae): cladistic analysis, taxonomic treatment and biogeographical considerations. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 255: 1-90 [55]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt South (BBS) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS), Pilbara (PIL) ; NSW, SA, Vic: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Victorian Midlands (VM) ; NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; NT, Qld, SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR) ; NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT) ; SA, WA: Coolgardie (COO), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Nullarbor (NUL)

History of changes

• Parroa apicalis Sloane, T.G. 1893. Broscides (sub-fam. of Coleoptera). Scientific results of the Elder Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 16: 203-213 [210].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA, Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Adotela apicalis (Sloane, 1893).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Big Desert, Kudgee, Kulkyne, Murray River and Sea Lake.

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Adotela atronitens Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [235].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.) ♀ hindbody only, SW Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Adotela atronitens (Sloane, 1890).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Fowlers Bay.

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Sloane, T.G. 1893. Broscides (sub-fam. of Coleoptera). Scientific results of the Elder Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 16: 203-213 [205] (taxonomy)

History of changes

• Adotela australis Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [236].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K205616 ♀, Wallaroo, SA [33° 56' S 137° 37' E].

Generic Combinations

• Adotela australis (Sloane, 1890).

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Sloane, T.G. 1893. Broscides (sub-fam. of Coleoptera). Scientific results of the Elder Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 16: 203-213 [205] (taxonomy)

History of changes

• Parroa bicolor Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [88].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV (Howitt coll.) 1 specimen located, Paroo River, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Adotela bicolor (Castelnau, 1867).

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Tullamore and type locality.

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Parroa carbonaria Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [88].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG, Swan River, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Adotela carbonaria (Castelnau, 1867).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Adotela carenoides Putzeys, J. 1873. Révision des Broscides de l'Australie d'après la collection de M. le Compte de Castelnau. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 4: 307-343 [341].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 5 of the original 8 specimens still extant, Port Denison, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Coomooboolaroo, Sellheim and type locality.

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Adotela concolor Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [89].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 2 specimens, Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Adotela esmeralda Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [89].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 5 specimens, Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Adotela frenchi Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [240].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.) ♀, MacDonnell Range, NT.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Onslow, Southern Cross and type locality.

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Jarrah Forest (JF), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Parroa grandis Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [88].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG, Swan River, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Adotela grandis (Castelnau, 1867).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Eradu and type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Parroa howittii Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [87].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 2 specimens, Paroo River, NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Adotela howittii (Castelnau, 1867).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cue, Cunnamulla and type locality.

IBRA

NSW, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Parroa laevigata Sloane, T.G. 1893. Broscides (sub-fam. of Coleoptera). Scientific results of the Elder Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 16: 203-213 [209].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) ♀, Barrow Range, WA; SAMA 1 specimen, Barrow Range, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Adotela laevigata (Sloane, 1893).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Todmorden and type locality.

IBRA

SA, WA: Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Adotela nigerrima Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [335].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS) ♀, Percy Ils., QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Parroa noctis Sloane, T.G. 1893. Broscides (sub-fam. of Coleoptera). Scientific results of the Elder Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 16: 203-213 [207].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 1 specimen, Murchison, WA; SAMA 2 specimens, Murchison, WA; NMV 1 specimen, Murchison, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Adotela noctis (Sloane, 1893).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Anketell, Kalgoorlie, Mullewa and Three Springs.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Adotela striolata Putzeys, J. 1873. Révision des Broscides de l'Australie d'après la collection de M. le Compte de Castelnau. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 4: 307-343 [341].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♀, Roebuck Bay, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Eradu and type locality.

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Parroa violacea Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [88].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG, Swan River, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Adotela violacea (Castelnau, 1867).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus viridis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [99].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 4 specimens, Gayndah, QLD; AM K205615 1 specimen, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [331] (taxonomy)

History of changes

• Anheterus Putzeys, J. 1868. Les Broscides. Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 305-379 [345].

  Type species:

   Promecoderus gracilis Germain, 1848 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

History of changes

• Promecoderus ambiguus Sloane, T.G. 1892. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. V Notes on the subfamily Broscini (Carabidae), with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7: 45-64 [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.) ♀, NT.

Generic Combinations

• Anheterus ambiguus (Sloane, 1892). —
  Roig-Juñent, S.A. 2000. The subtribes and genera of the tribe Broscini (Coleoptera: Carabidae): cladistic analysis, taxonomic treatment and biogeographical considerations. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 255: 1-90 [70]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus distinctus Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [224].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K7886, K13158 2 specimens, Magadup, WA [34° 7' S 118° 12' E].

Generic Combinations

• Anheterus distinctus (Sloane, 1890). —
  Roig-Juñent, S.A. 2000. The subtribes and genera of the tribe Broscini (Coleoptera: Carabidae): cladistic analysis, taxonomic treatment and biogeographical considerations. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 255: 1-90 [70]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Bridgetown, Mundaring Weir, New Norcia and type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, low open woodland, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus gracilis Germar, E.F. 1848. Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Adelaide. Linnaea Entomologica 3: 153-247 [169].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, Adelaide, SA.
• Promecoderus parvulus Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [331].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, near Yass, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [225]

Generic Combinations

• Anheterus gracilis (Germar, 1848).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Gundaroo, Murrumbidgee, Tharwa and Werribee Gorge.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Brithysternum Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [366].

  Type species:

   Brithysternum calcaratum Macleay, 1873 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Brithysternum calcaratum Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [366].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 4 specimens, Peak Downs, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Brithysternum macleayi Sloane, T.G. 1910. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVI New species of Carabidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 378-406 [382].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♂, NT.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Beswick, Katherine, Mainoro and Pine Creek.

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Brithysternum nodosum Sloane, T.G. 1910. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVI New species of Carabidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 378-406 [384].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 1 specimen, Roebuck Bay, WA; NMV 1 specimen, Roebuck Bay, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Cerotalis Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [89].

  Type species:

   Cerotalis semiviolacea Castelnau, 1867 by included Species.Cerotalis substriata Castelnau, 1867 by included Species.Cerotalis versicolor Castelnau, 1867 by included Species.Cerotalis substriata Castelnau, 1867 by subsequent designation, see Roig-Juñent, S.A. 2000. The subtribes and genera of the tribe Broscini (Coleoptera: Carabidae): cladistic analysis, taxonomic treatment and biogeographical considerations. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 255: 1-90 [53].

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), 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), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), 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), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

History of changes

• Cerotalis amabilis Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [228].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 2 specimens, Coomooboolaroo, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Kingaroy, Ouldea and type locality.

IBRA

Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, low open woodland, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Cerotalis brachypleura Sloane, T.G. 1898. On Carabidae from West Australia, sent by Mr. A.M. Lea (with descriptions of new genera and species, synoptic tables etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23: 444-520 [450].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA, Coolgardie, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Cerotalis longipes Sloane, T.G. 1898. On Carabidae from West Australia, sent by Mr. A.M. Lea (with descriptions of new genera and species, synoptic tables etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23: 444-520 [449].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA, Coolgardie, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus majusculus Putzeys, J. 1868. Les Broscides. Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 305-379 [336].

  Type data:

   Holotype RIB ♂, Australia.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

No known locality.

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), 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), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Cerotalis semiviolacea Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [89].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 4 specimens, Port Lincoln, SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Kangaroo Is., Lake Hattah, Sea Lake, Tailem Bend, Tuckey and type locality.

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Cerotalis substriata Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [89].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 3 specimens, King George Sound, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Bridgetown, Busselton, Mt Barker and type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Cerotalis versicolor Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [89].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV (Howitt coll.) 1 specimen located, VIC.

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys Westwood, J.O. 1842. On the Scaritideous beetles of New Holland. 81-90 pl. 24 in Westwood, J.O. (ed.). Arcana Entomologica or illustrations of new rare and interesting insects. London : Smith Vol. 1 iv 192 pp. 48 pls. [89].

  Type species:

   Gnathoxys granularis Westwood, 1842 by included Species.Gnathoxys irregularis Westwood, 1842 by included Species.Gnathoxys granularis Westwood, 1839 by subsequent designation, see Roig-Juñent, S.A. 2000. The subtribes and genera of the tribe Broscini (Coleoptera: Carabidae): cladistic analysis, taxonomic treatment and biogeographical considerations. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 255: 1-90 [57].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), 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), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), 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), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

History of changes

• Gnathoxys barbatus Macleay, W.J. 1864. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 2nd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 134-154 [151].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA (not located in 1984), SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys cicatricosus Reiche, L. 1842. Arcana Entomologica, etc., par M. Westwood, No 6. - Examen de cette livraison et description de deux espèces nouvelles du genre Gnathoxys. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 1842: 120-122 [121].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, WA (as W. Australien).

  Secondary source:

   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] [21].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys crassipes Sloane, T.G. 1898. On Carabidae from West Australia, sent by Mr. A.M. Lea (with descriptions of new genera and species, synoptic tables etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23: 444-520 [446].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA (not located in 1984), Geraldton and Rottnest Is., WA.
  Paratype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen; ANIC (Sloane coll.) shell of 1 specimen.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Dwellingup, Fremantle and type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys foveatus Macleay, W.J. 1866. (Note). Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: lv-lvi [lix].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys granularis Westwood, J.O. 1842. On the Scaritideous beetles of New Holland. 81-90 pl. 24 in Westwood, J.O. (ed.). Arcana Entomologica or illustrations of new rare and interesting insects. London : Smith Vol. 1 iv 192 pp. 48 pls. [89 pl. 23 figs 2, 2a-2c].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM, Port Essington, NT (locality doubtful).
• Gnathoxys blissii Macleay, W.J. 1866. (Note). Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: lv-lvi [lviii].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Swan River, W.A.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Putzeys, J. 1868. Les Broscides. Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 305-379 [373]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys humeralis Macleay, W.J. 1864. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 2nd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 134-154 [150].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Big Desert, Karoonda and Merawa.

IBRA

SA, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys insignitus Macleay, W.J. 1864. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 2nd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 134-154 [149].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 5 specimens, King George Sound, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Harvey, Mt Barker and type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys irregularis Westwood, J.O. 1842. On the Scaritideous beetles of New Holland. 81-90 pl. 24 in Westwood, J.O. (ed.). Arcana Entomologica or illustrations of new rare and interesting insects. London : Smith Vol. 1 iv 192 pp. 48 pls. [89 pl. 23 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM, Port Essington, NT.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys macleayi Putzeys, J. 1868. Les Broscides. Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 305-379 [377].

  Type data:

   Holotype RIB ♂, Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys murrumbidgensis Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [195].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Murrumbidgee, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys obscurus Reiche, L. 1842. Arcana Entomologica, etc., par M. Westwood, No 6. - Examen de cette livraison et description de deux espèces nouvelles du genre Gnathoxys. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 1842: 120-122 [121].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, WA.

  Secondary source:

   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] [22].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Armadale and Perth.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys pannuceus Guthrie, N.A. 2007. A new species of Gnathoxys (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Carabinae) from an urban bushland remnant in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 23: 213-217 [214].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 38293 ♂, WA, Woodman Point Reserve, site WP2 [32°07'50''S 115°45'28''E].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Collected in pitfall trap.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys punctipennis Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [327].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens located, SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Koonibba, Moontah and Southern Cross.

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys submetallicus Macleay, W.J. 1864. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 2nd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 134-154 [152].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.) poor condition, SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys sulcicollis Sloane, T.G. 1910. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVI New species of Carabidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 378-406 [380].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.) poor condition, central Australia.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

No known locality.

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), 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), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys tesselatus Macleay, W.J. 1864. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 2nd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 134-154 [152].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Parramatta, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Clayfield, Maroota, Mullaly, Sydney and type locality.

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Gnathoxys westwoodi Putzeys, J. 1868. Les Broscides. Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 305-379 [377].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, King George Sound (as Détroit du Roi Georges), WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1829. Species général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. IV vii 520 pp. [Nov. 1829] [25].

  Type species:

   Promecoderus brunnicornis Dejean, 1829 by monotypy.
• Cnemacanthus Gray, G. 1832. Notices of new genera and species. in Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization by the Baron Cuvier. London : Whittaker, Treacher & Co. Vol. 1 (Insecta) 14-570 pp. + 53 pls. [276].

  Type species:

   Cnemacanthus gibbosus Gray, 1832 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lacordaire, J.T. 1854. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères Tom. 1 Contenant les familles des Cicindélètes, Carabiques, Dytiscides, Gyrinides et Palpicornes. Paris : Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret xx 486 pp. [244]
• Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [190]
• Britton, E.B. 1949. The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of New Zealand. Part III. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77: 533-581 [537]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), 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), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), 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), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

History of changes

• Promecoderus albaniensis Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [82].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 6 specimens, King George Sound, WA.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open forest, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus anguliceps Sloane, T.G. 1898. On Carabidae from West Australia, sent by Mr. A.M. Lea (with descriptions of new genera and species, synoptic tables etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23: 444-520 [454].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 1 specimen, Beverley and Swan River, WA; SAMA 2 specimens, Beverley and Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus bassii Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [80].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 4 specimens, King Is., TAS.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus blackburni Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [223].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) ♂ ♀, Port Lincoln, SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Corney Point, Duck Nest Point, Lock, Port Lincoln and type locality.

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus brunnicornis Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1829. Species général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. IV vii 520 pp. [Nov. 1829] [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Promecoderus degener Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1841. Descriptions de quelques Coléoptères nouveaux, provenant de la Tasmanie, des îles Vavao et Ternate, de Triton Bay, à la Nouvelle-Guinée, et du port Famine, dans le détroit de Magellan. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 4: 186-193 [189].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP ♂ 2♀, Hobart, TAS.
• Promecoderus morosus Putzeys, J. 1868. Les Broscides. Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 305-379 [333].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, unknown locality.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1920. The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 113-178 [125]
• 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] [47]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

E and central TAS.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus castelnaui Sloane, T.G. 1892. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. V Notes on the subfamily Broscini (Carabidae), with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7: 45-64 [46].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) ♂ ♀, Narrabri, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Warialda district and type locality.

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus clivinoides Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1841. Descriptions de quelques Coléoptères nouveaux, provenant de la Tasmanie, des îles Vavao et Ternate, de Triton Bay, à la Nouvelle-Guinée, et du port Famine, dans le détroit de Magellan. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 4: 186-193 [189].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 5 specimens, Swan River, WA.
• Promecoderus minutus Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [81].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Swan River, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Putzeys, J. 1868. Les Broscides. Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 305-379 [341]
• 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] [24]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Blackwood River, Geraldton and type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open forest, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus comes Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [214].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 1 specimen and hindbody, Wallangarra, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Fletcher and type locality.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus concolor Germar, E.F. 1848. Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Adelaide. Linnaea Entomologica 3: 153-247 [168].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, Adelaide, SA.
• Promecoderus suturalis Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [84].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 6 specimens, Adelaide, SA.
• Promecoderus howittii Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [85].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 6 specimens, Melbourne, VIC.
• Promecoderus lucidus Putzeys, J. 1868. Les Broscides. Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 305-379 [339].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, Australia.
• Promecoderus anthracinus Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [334].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, lower Murrumbidgee River, NSW.
• Promecoderus concolor namoyensis Sloane, T.G. 1892. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. V Notes on the subfamily Broscini (Carabidae), with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7: 45-64 [48].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 1 specimen located, Narrabri and Gunnedah, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1892. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. V Notes on the subfamily Broscini (Carabidae), with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7: 45-64 [47]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, low open woodland, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Moore, B.P. 1964. Australian larval Carabidae of the subfamilies Broscinae, Psydrinae and Pseudomorphinae (Coleoptera). Pacific Insects 6: 242-246 [242]

History of changes

• Promecoderus cordicollis Sloane, T.G. 1908. [New species description]. p. 147 in Lea, A.M (ed.). The Coleoptera of King Island, Bass Strait. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 20(2): 143-207 [Date published March 31, 1908] [147].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 2 specimens, King Island, TAS.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus curvipes Sloane, T.G. 1920. The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 113-178 [126].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SAMA 8 specimens, TAS; ANIC (Sloane coll.) 3 specimens, TAS; ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen, TAS; AM K43111 1 specimen, TAS.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open forest, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus dorsalis Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [333].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Murrumbidgee River, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Delatite River, Kosciusko, Tolmie and type locality.

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus dischirioides Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1841. Descriptions de quelques Coléoptères nouveaux, provenant de la Tasmanie, des îles Vavao et Ternate, de Triton Bay, à la Nouvelle-Guinée, et du port Famine, dans le détroit de Magellan. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 4: 186-193 [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Eradu and type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus elegans Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [83].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 5 specimens, Melbourne, VIC.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Echo Flat, Leongatha, Marysville, Mt Donna Buang, Mt Slide and type locality.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Cnemacanthus gibbosus Gray, G. 1832. Notices of new genera and species. in Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization by the Baron Cuvier. London : Whittaker, Treacher & Co. Vol. 1 (Insecta) 14-570 pp. + 53 pls. [276 pl. 15 fig. 1] [subsequently misspelled as gibbus by Castelnau, F.L. Laporte de 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to publication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [86].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM ♂ and series, TAS.

  Secondary source:

   Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

General References

Lacordaire, J.T. 1854. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères Tom. 1 Contenant les familles des Cicindélètes, Carabiques, Dytiscides, Gyrinides et Palpicornes. Paris : Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret xx 486 pp. [244] (taxonomy)

History of changes

• Promecoderus hunteriensis Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [332].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen located, Hunter River district, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus inornatus Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [333].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Monaro, NSW.
• Promecoderus puncticollis Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [333].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen located, Monaro, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [196]

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Kosciusko and type locality.

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: alpine, flightless, low open woodland, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus insignis Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [222].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) only ♀ found, Forest Reefs, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Murrambateman and type locality.

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, low open woodland, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus intermedius Sloane, T.G. 1898. On Carabidae from West Australia, sent by Mr. A.M. Lea (with descriptions of new genera and species, synoptic tables etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23: 444-520 [451].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA, Mt Barker, WA.
  Paratype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) ♂.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open forest, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus interruptus Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [331].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) only ♀ found, Clarence River, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Baan Baa and type locality.

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus leai Sloane, T.G. 1898. On Carabidae from West Australia, sent by Mr. A.M. Lea (with descriptions of new genera and species, synoptic tables etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23: 444-520 [453].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA 4161, Newcastle, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus lottini Brullé, G.A. 1834. Coléoptères. I. Histoire naturelle des insects, traitant de leur organisation et de leurs moeurs en général, par M.V. Audouin, et comprenant leur classification et la description des espèces, par M.A. Brullé. Le tout accompagné de planches gravées sur acier, d’après des peintures exécutées pour cette édition sur la collection du Muséum de Paris. Paris : Pillot Tome V viii + 479 pp., 16 pls. [450 pl. 18 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, New Zealand (in error, probably WA).

  Secondary source:

   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] [25].

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

No known locality; also New Zealand, see Larochelle, A. & Larivière, M.-C. 2001. Carabidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): Catalogue. Fauna of New Zealand 43: 285 pp. [181].

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), 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), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus lucidicollis Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [85].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG ♂ specimen located, Melbourne, VIC.
• Promecoderus politus Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [218].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K13268 2 specimens ♀ only located, Condobolin, Lachlan River, NSW [33° 5' 17" S 147° 8' 42" E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1892. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. V Notes on the subfamily Broscini (Carabidae), with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7: 45-64 [48]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Little Desert and type localities.

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus maritimus Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [81].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG ♂ specimen located, Cape Schanck, VIC.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus mastersii Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [332].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Monaro, NSW.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Gundaroo, Marulan, Piccadilly Circus and Queanbeyan.

IBRA

ACT, NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, low open woodland, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Moore, B.P. 1979. Chemical defense in Carabids and its bearing on phylogeny. pp. 193-203 in Erwin, T.L., Ball, G.E., Whitehead, D.R. & Halpern, A.L. (eds). Carabid beetles: Their evolution, natural history, and classification. The Hague : W. Junk vii 635 pp. [200]

History of changes

• Promecoderus modestus Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [84].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♀, TAS.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus neglectus Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [84].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 2 specimens, "mountains", VIC.
• Promecoderus puella Putzeys, J. 1868. Les Broscides. Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 305-379 [343].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, NSW (as Nouvelle Galles du Sud).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [195]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Bombala.

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus nigellus Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [211].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K13149 ♂, Dabee, NSW [32° 50' 47" S 150° 3' 5" E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Hunter River and type locality.

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus nigricornis Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [81].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG ♂ specimen located, "mountains", VIC.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus oblongus Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [83].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♂, Melbourne, VIC.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus olivaceus Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [334].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 3 specimens, Pipers Flats, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Blue Mts and Sassafrass.

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus ovicollis Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [80].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 7 specimens, TAS.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Mangana and Mt Nelson.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus ovipennis Sloane, T.G. 1898. On Carabidae from West Australia, sent by Mr. A.M. Lea (with descriptions of new genera and species, synoptic tables etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23: 444-520 [452].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA, Beverley, WA.
  Paratype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 2 specimens.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus pacificus Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. III On Promecoderus and closely allied genera (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 189-242 [206].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 3 specimens, Otway Range, VIC.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Beech Forest and type locality.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus pygmaeus Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [81].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG ♂, "mountains", VIC.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus riverinae Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [331].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, lower Murrumbidgee, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Barooga, Mulwala and type locality.

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, low open woodland, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus scauroides Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [83].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG ♂ specimen located, Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mullewa and Rottnest Is.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus semistriatus Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [82].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG ♂ ♀, Eastern Creek, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Lapin, Woronora and type locality.

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus sloanei Blackburn, T. 1901. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXVIII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 25: 15–44 [19].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Yilgarn, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus striatopunctatus Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [82].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 2 specimens, "mountains", VIC, Darling River, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus subdepressus Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1841. Descriptions de quelques Coléoptères nouveaux, provenant de la Tasmanie, des îles Vavao et Ternate, de Triton Bay, à la Nouvelle-Guinée, et du port Famine, dans le détroit de Magellan. Revue de Zoologie, Paris 4: 186-193 [190].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, Tasmania (in error), label reads Swan River, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus viridiaeneus Sloane, T.G. 1915. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVII New genera and species of Carabidae. (Pamborini, Migadopini, Broscini, Cunepectini, Nomoni, Pterostichini, Platynini, Oodini, Harpalini, Lebiini). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 40: 438-473 [444].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ missing, Mt Magnet, TAS.

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Western district.

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Promecoderus wilcoxii Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [85].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 2 specimens, Clarence River, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Nothobroscina Roig-Juñent, 2000.

  Type genus:

   Nothobroscus Roig-Juñent & Ball, 1995.

History of changes

• Chylnus Sloane, T.G. 1920. The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 113-178 [129] [nom. nov. for Lychnus Putzeys, 1868].
• Lychnus Putzeys, J. 1868. Les Broscides. Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 305-379 [324] [junior homonym of Lychnus Matheson, 1832].

  Type species:

   Lychnus ater Putzeys, 1868 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), 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) ; Tas, Vic: Flinders (FLI) ; Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

History of changes

• Lychnus ater Putzeys, J. 1868. Les Broscides. Entomologische Zeitschrift 29: 305-379 [325].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB 2+ ♂ ♀, TAS (as Van Diemen).
• Lychnus strangulatus Bates, H.W. 1878. New genera and species of Carabidae from Tasmania. Cistula Entomologica 2: 317-326 [317].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP 7(♂ ♀), central districts, N. TAS; BMNH, central districts, N. TAS.
• Lychnus striatulus Bates, H.W. 1878. New genera and species of Carabidae from Tasmania. Cistula Entomologica 2: 317-326 [318].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP 1 specimen, central TAS; BMNH 1 specimen, central TAS.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1920. The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 113-178 [129]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.