Genus Catascopus Kirby, 1825

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• Catascopus Kirby, W. 1825. A description of some insects which appear to exemplify Mr. W.S. Macleay's doctrine of affinity and analogy. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 14: 93–110 [94].

  Type species:

   Catascopus hardwickii Kirby, 1825 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   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. [14].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Arnhem Coast (ARC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; NSW, Qld: 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), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Baehr, M. 2012. Revision of some species-groups of the genus Catascopus Kirby from the Oriental and Australian Regions (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini). Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 108: 25–120

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