Species Carenum anthracinum Macleay, 1864

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• Carenum anthracinum Macleay, W.J. 1864. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 2nd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 134-154 [135].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 4 specimens, SA.
• Carenum ebeninum 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)] [48].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG, Gawler, SA.
• Carenum cyanipenne Macleay, W.J. 1869. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 4th paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 58-70 [62].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 4 specimens, SA.
• Carenum nitescens Macleay, W.J. 1869. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 4th paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 58-70 [64].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) hindbody only, Salt Lake, Hummock Range, SA.
• Carenum gracile Sloane, T.G. 1895. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. VII New genera and species of Carabidae (including some notes on previously described species, and synoptic lists of genera and species). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 9: 393-455 [401].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 1 specimen, lower Murray River, Mildura or Wentworth, VIC or NSW; NMV 1 specimen, lower Murray River, Mildura or Wentworth, VIC or NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1900. On the Carenides (Fam. Carabidae). No. IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 361-388 [379]
• Sloane, T.G. 1905. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 30: 103-135 [120]

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), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), 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, fossorial, nocturnal, open scrub, predator, sandy soil, terrestrial.

General References

Moore, B.P. & Lawrence, J.F. 1994. The extraordinary larval characters of Carenum Bonelli and their bearing on the phylogeny of the Scarititae (Coleoptera: Carabidae). The Canadian Entomologist 126: 503–514 [504] (larval description, taxonomy)

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