Species Carenum interruptum Macleay, 1865

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• Carenum interruptum Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [181].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 4 specimens, Wingelo or Dabee, near Mudgee, NSW.
• Carenum obscurum Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [182].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen located, NSW.
• Carenum castelnaui Chaudoir, M. de 1868. Note sur le genre Carenum, Bonelli. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 11: 137-151 [141].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 4 specimens, unknown locality.
• Carenum sexpunctatum 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) 1 specimen located, Lower Murrumbidgee, NSW.
• Carenum occultum Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [97].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 3 specimens, Gayndah, QLD.
• Carenum purpureomarginatum Macleay, W.J. 1887. Miscellanea entomologica. No. III - The Scaritidae of New Holland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 115-134 [132].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 complete specimens and 2 hindbodies only, Coonabarabran, NSW.
• Carenum (Carenum) arenarium Sloane, T.G. 1888. A note on the Carenides, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1101-1122 [7 Dec. 1888] [1114].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Mulwala, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1897. On the Carenides (Fam. Carabidae). No. III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22: 190-229 [211]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: 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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, low open woodland, low woodland, nocturnal, open scrub, predator, sandy soil, terrestrial.

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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