Genus Calarus Raffray, 1903

Museums

Regional Maps

• Calarus Raffray, A. 1903. Voyage de M. L. Biró dans les possessions allemandes de la Nouvelle-Guinée. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 1: 29-101, pls 1-2 [32].

  Type species:

   Calarus puncticeps Raffray, 1903 by subsequent designation, see Lucas, R. 1920. Catalogus alphabeticus generum et subgenerum Coleopterorum orbis terrarum totius (famil., trib., subtr., sect. incl.). Pars I. (1918). Archiv für Naturgeschichte A 84(1-5): 1-696, i-xxxi [156].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

5 species from Australia and Papua-New Guinea are placed in this genus.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria
• Papua New Guinea

Diagnosis

Head as wide as or slightly narrower than pronotum; with U-shaped vertexal sulcus connecting nude vertexal foveae often indistinct; knobbed antennal tubercles weak to distinct; gula transversely swollen. Pronotum with lateral margins straight adjacent to lateral antebasal foveae; antebasal sulcus variably distinct, disc with median sulcus. Elytra with 3-4 foveae; discal stria extending to elytral midpoint or longer, rarely shorter. Median mesosternal fovea small; lateral mesosternal foveae simple. Visible tergites 1-4 (IV-VII) subequal in length.

 

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [153]

Raffray, A. 1908. Coleoptera fam. Pselaphidae. 1-487, pls i-ix in Wytsman, P. (ed.). Genera Insectorum, 64th fascicule. Rome : Wytsman. [75]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)