Species Castelnaudia cyaneotincta (Boisduval, 1835)

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• Omalosoma cyaneotinctum Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu vii 716 pp. [Date published 27-III-1835] [37].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, 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].
• Homalosoma atroviride Sloane, T.G. 1895. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. VII New genera and species of Carabidae (including some notes on previously described species, and synoptic lists of genera and species). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 9: 393-455 [424].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Inverell, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tschitschérine, T. 1902. Notes sur les Platysmatini de l'Australie. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 35: 502-534 [526]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, low open woodland, open forest, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

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)

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