Species Carenum porphyreum Bates, 1874

Museums

Regional Maps

• Carenum porphyreum Bates, H.W. 1874. Notes on Cicindelidae and Carabidae, and descriptions of new species (No. 18). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 11: 95-101 [95].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, nocturnal, predator, sandy soil, terrestrial.

History of changes