Species Carenum bonellii Brullé, 1835

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• Carenum bonellii Brullé, A. 1835. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Coléoptères II. Paris : F.D. Pillot Vol. 5 436 pp. [63 pl. 2 fig. 6] [nom. nov. for Carenum cyaneum Bonelli, 1813, from Australia (as New Holland)].

  Secondary source:

   Westwood, J.O. 1842. On the Scaritideous beetles of New Holland. 81-90 pl. 24 in Westwood, J.O. (ed.). Arcana Entomologica or illustrations of new rare and interesting insects. London : Smith Vol. 1 iv 192 pp. 48 pls. [83].
• Carenum cyaneum Bonelli, F.A. 1813. Observations entomologiques. Part II. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Turin 1811-1812: 433–484 [479] [invalid name; Bonelli misidentified this insect as Scarites cyaneus Fabricius, 1775 in assigning it as the type of the genus Carenum].
• Carenum viridipenne Westwood, J.O. 1849. Descriptions of some new exotic Coleoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 5: 202-214 [202].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM (Sloane coll.) (or BMNH*), NSW.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1927. Carabidae: Carabinae II. pp. 315-622 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 1 Pars 92. [Date published 22/Dec/1927] [453].
• Carenum scitulum Macleay, W.J. 1864. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 2nd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 134-154 [144].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM, "Stutchbury, North District". Probably from Moreton Bay or Port Curtis, QLD.
• Carenum westwoodii 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)] [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG, Mt Kosciusko, NSW.
• Carenum chaudoiri Macleay, W.J. 1869. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 4th paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 58-70 [63].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1905. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 30: 103-135 [121]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Carenum cyaneus (Fabricius, 1775) [Bonelli (1813) misidentified C bonellii as Scarites cyaneus in assigning the latter as the type species of the genus Carenum.]. —
  Bonelli, F.A. 1813. Observations entomologiques. Part II. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Turin 1811-1812: 433–484 [479]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: 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), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, nocturnal, predator, sandy soil, tall forest, tall open forest, terrestrial.

General References

Garetto, R. & Giachino, P.M. 2005. Notes on the genus Carenum Bonelli, 1813 (Coleoptera, Carabidae). I. The types of The Natural History Museum (London) and of the Oxford University Museum (Oxford). pp. 11-72 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. II. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 42, 644 pp. [37] (types of viridipenne)

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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