Species Carenum scaritoides Westwood, 1843

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• Carenum scaritoides Westwood, J.O. 1843. Addenda and Corrigenda. pp. 191-192 in Westwood, J.O. (ed.). Arcana Entomologica or illustrations of new rare and interesting insects. London : Smith Vol. 1 iv 192 pp. 48 pls. [192].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM (or BMNH*), Port Phillip, VIC, (as WA).

  Type locality references:

  Moore, B.P. 1987. Suborder Adephaga. pp. 17-366 in Houston, W.W.K. & Richardson, B.J.R. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 viii 444 pp.
• Carenum intermedium Westwood, J.O. 1849. Descriptions of some new exotic Coleoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 5: 202-214 [203].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM (or BMNH*), Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Sloane, T.G. 1897. On the Carenides (Fam. Carabidae). No. III. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22: 190-229 [211].
• Carenum atronitens Macleay, W.J. 1864. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 2nd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 134-154 [137].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen located, ?SA.
• Carenum oblongum Macleay, W.J. 1864. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 2nd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 134-154 [138].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), SA or NT.
• Carenum nigerrimum Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [176].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 4 specimens, SA.
• Carenum ambiguum Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [177].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 3 specimens, King George Sound, WA.
• Carenum striatopunctulatum Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [178].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Murrumbidgee, NSW.
• Carenum subquadratum Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [177].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), SA.
• Carenum atronitens 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)] [52].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Gawler, SA.
• Carenum gawlerense Macleay, W.J. 1869. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 4th paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 58-70 [59] [nom. nov. for Carenum atronitens Castelnau, 1867].
• Carenum ignotus Sloane, T.G. 1892. Descriptions of two new species of Carenum from West Australia, with notes on the synonymy and distribution of some previously described species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 6: 427-432 [427].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.) hindbody only, between York and Yilgarn, 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 [379-380]
• 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] [458]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, nocturnal, open scrub, predator, sandy soil, 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. [61, 68] (types of intermedium and scaritoides respectively)

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