Subspecies Cainogenion (Cainogenion) creberrimum creberrimum (Blackburn, 1901)

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• Adelotopus creberrimus 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:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ ('Basin of Lake Eyre' from description), Lyndhurst, SA (from label).
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♀ (as co-type), ?Lake Eyre, SA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Baehr, M. 1997. Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian Region. 2. The genera Pseudomorpha Kirby, Adelotopus Hope, Cainogenion Notman, Paussotropus Waterhouse, and Cryptocephalomorpha Ritsema. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Spixiana (Munich) Supplement 23: 508 pp. [Date published 1/Apr/1997] [345].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, eucalyptus trees, myrmecophilous, predator, under bark, volant.

General References

Baehr, M. 1997. Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian Region. 2. The genera Pseudomorpha Kirby, Adelotopus Hope, Cainogenion Notman, Paussotropus Waterhouse, and Cryptocephalomorpha Ritsema. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Spixiana (Munich) Supplement 23: 508 pp. [Date published 1/Apr/1997] [345] (redescription, distribution)

Notman, H. 1925. A review of the beetle family Pseudomorphinae, and a suggestion for a rearrangement of the Adephaga, with descriptions of a new genus and new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 67(14): 1-34 [11] (taxonomy)

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