Species Catadromus australis Castelnau, 1834

Museums

Regional Maps

• Catadromus australis Castelnau, F.L. Laporte de 1834. Études Entomologiques, ou Description d'Insectes Nouveaux et Observations sur leur Synonomie. Paris : Méquinon-Marvis 1-94 pp., pl 1-2. [154].

  Type data:

   Neotype MNHP ♂, Australia, Melbourne.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Giachino, P.M. 2005. Revision of the genus Catadromus (Coleoptera, Carabidae). pp. 239-268 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. [247].
• Catadromus latro Tschitschérine, T. 1896. Note sur la Catadromus Macl. Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences de l'Union des Républiques Soviètiques Socialistes 1: 141-149 [143].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZML ♂, Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) ZML 4 specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Giachino, P.M. 2005. Revision of the genus Catadromus (Coleoptera, Carabidae). pp. 239-268 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. [247].

  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] [737].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Straneo, S.L. 1941. Sui tipi dei Pterostichini (Coleopt. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau nel Museo Civico di Genova Nota III. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 61: 83-94 [94]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, riparian, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Giachino, P.M. 2005. Revision of the genus Catadromus (Coleoptera, Carabidae). pp. 239-268 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. [247] (revision, new records)

History of changes