Species Carenum tinctilatum (Newman, 1838)

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• Eutoma tinctilatus Newman, E. 1838. Entomological notes. Entomological Magazine. London 5: 168-181 [171] [subsequently spelled as tinctillatum by authors].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Australia (as New Holland).
• Carenum bipunctatum Macleay, W.J. 1863. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 55-74 [60].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Port Denison, QLD.
• Carenum glaberrimum Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [180].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), NSW.
• Carenum substriatulum Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [179].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen located, Richmond River, NSW.
• Carenum subrugulosum Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [180].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Australia (as New Holland).
• Carenum undulatum Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [180].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Wingelo..on the road to Goulburn, NSW.
• Eutoma newmanni 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)] [54].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 1 specimen (located in 1968 by B.P. Moore), Port Denison, QLD.
• Eutoma laevis 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)] [55].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 2 specimens, Eastern Creek, NSW.
• Eutoma loddonensis 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)] [56].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV (Howitt coll.) 1 specimen located, Loddon River, VIC.
• Eutoma punctulatum 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 [130].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Dawson River, QLD.
• Eutoma mastersi Macleay, W.J. 1869. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 4th paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 58-70 [67].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not found by Sloane in MMUS in 1905), Dabee, near Mudgee, NSW.

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 [123]

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, low open woodland, 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. [45]

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]

Sloane, T.G. 1905. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 30: 103-135 [117] (taxonomy)

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