Species Castelnaudia cyanea (Castelnau, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Homalosoma cyanea Castelnau, F.L. Laporte de 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, Animaux articulés. Coléoptères. Paris : Duménil Vol. 1 cxxv 24 pp. [113].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1930. Carabidae II: Harpalinae IV. pp. 529-738 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 112. [Date published 3/Jun/1930] [542].
• Feronia episcopalis 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)] [118].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Lane (as Lans) Cove, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1936. Sui tipi dei Platysmatini (Coleopt. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau, nel Museo Civico di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 59: 246-259 [249].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tschitschérine, T. 1902. Notes sur les Platysmatini de l'Australie. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 35: 502-534 [530]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Royal Natl. Park to Comboyne.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: closed forest, flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

 

General References

Moore, B.P. 1965. Studies on Australian Carabidae (Coleoptera). 4. The Pterostichinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 117: 1-32 [20] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Aug-2013		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)