Species Catadromus tenebrioides (Olivier, 1790)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Carabus tenebrioides Olivier, A.G. 1790. Entomologie, ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. (Coléoptères). Paris : Panckoucke 2 pts 9-34 485 pp. 63 pls. [324].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP (lost or destroyed according to Darlington, P.J. Jr 1962. The carabid beetles of New Guinea Part I. Cicindelinae, Carabinae, Harpalinae through Pterostichini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 126: 321–564 pls 4 [563]), Java, Amboina.

  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].
• Catadromus elseyi White, A. 1859. Descriptions of unrecorded species of Australian Coleoptera of the families Carabidae, Buprestidae, Lamellicornia, Longicornia, etc. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1859: 117–123 pls 58–59 [117 pl. 58 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC 1 specimen, Upper Victoria (River) [lat. 1'30"]; BMNH, Upper Victoria (River) [lat. 1'30"].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: open forest, predator, riparian, 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. [256] (revision, new records, status of C. elseyi revised to separate species)

Macleay, W.S. 1825. Annulosa Javanica, or an attempt to illustrate the natural affinities and analogies of the insects collected in Java by Thomas Horsfield, M.D. F.L. & G.S. and deposited by him in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Company. London : Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen 52 pp. 1 pl. [18] (taxonomy)

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