Species Catascopus aruensis Saunders, 1863

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• Catascopus aruensis Saunders, W.W. 1863. On the species of Catascopus found by Mr. Wallace in the Malay Penninsular and East Indian Islands. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1863: 455-469 [458 pl. 17 figs 5a, 5b].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Aru, Indonesia.
• Catascopus cupricollis Chaudoir, M. de 1883. Descriptions de Carabiques nouveaux. Coleopteriste Nov 1: 17–39 [24] [junior homonym of Catascopus cupreicollis Waterhouse, 1877].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Fly River, New Guinea.

  Secondary source:

   Darlington, P.J. Jr 1968. The carabid beetles of New Guinea Part III. Harpalinae (continued): Perigonini to Pseudomorphini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 137: 1-253 [108].
• Catascopus brevispinosus Sloane, T.G. 1910. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVI New species of Carabidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 378-406 [398].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) ♂ ♀, Coen, QLD.
• Catascopus aeneicollis Andrewes, H.E. 1919. Papers on Oriental Carabidae. I. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 3: 469-483 [481] [nom. nov. for Catascopus cupricollis Chaudoir, 1883].
• Catascopus dalbertisi Straneo, S.L. 1943. Su alcuni Catascopus (Col. Carabid.) della Nuova Guinea nella collezioni del Museo Civico di Storia naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 61: 302-306 [304].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG, Hatau, Papua.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Csiki, E. 1932. Carabidae III: Harpalinae VII. pp. 1279-1598 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 3 Pars 124. [Date published 7/Nov/1932] [1362]
• Darlington, P.J. Jr 1968. The carabid beetles of New Guinea Part III. Harpalinae (continued): Perigonini to Pseudomorphini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 137: 1-253 [107]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, closed forest, predator, under bark, volant.

History of changes