Species Calosoma (Australodrepa) oceanicum Perroud & Montrouzier, 1865

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• Calosoma oceanicum Perroud, B.P. & Montrouzier, X. 1865. Essai sur la faune entomologique de Kanala (Nouvelle-Calédonie) et description de quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connues. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2 11: 46-257 pl. 1 [Date published Feb. 1865] [49 pl. 1 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, New Caledonia.

  Secondary source:

   Sloane, T.G. 1920. The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 113-178 [124].
• Calosoma timorense Chaudoir, M. de 1869. Descriptions de Calosoma nouveaux des collections de M. de Chaudoir et Sallé. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 9: 367-378 [367].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH ♀, Atapoupou, Timor.
• Calosoma walkeri Waterhouse, C.O. 1898. Description of a new species of Calosoma (Coleoptera, Geodephaga). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 1: 98-99 [98].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Swan River and Roebuck Bay, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Csiki, E. 1927. Carabidae: Carabinae I. pp. 1-313 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coelopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 1 Pars 91. [Date published 15/Oct/1927] [8]
• Jeannel, R. 1940. Les Calosomes. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 13: 1-240 pls I-VIII [74]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), 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), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: caterpillar feeder, eurytopic, nocturnal, nomadic, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Moore, B.P. & Wallbank, B.E. 1968. Chemical composition of the defensive secretion in carabid beetles and its importance as a taxonomic character. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 37(5–6): 62-72 [64]

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