Species Carenum elegans Macleay, 1864

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Regional Maps

• Carenum elegans 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:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen located, NT "Mitchell's Exp., V.R." (Victoria River).
• Carenum campestre Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [186].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Lower Murrumbidgee, NSW.
• Carenum rufipes Macleay, W.J. 1869. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 4th paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 58-70 [65].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM, Stirling Range, WA.

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 [372]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, low open woodland, low woodland, 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 [509] (larval description)

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