Species Cainogenion (Cainogenion) subopacum (Macleay, 1871)

Museums

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• Adelotopus subopacus Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [94].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♀, Gayndah, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♀, Gayndah, QLD.

  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] [353].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

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] [353] (redescription, distribution)

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