Species Cerabilia (Feronista) australis (Chaudoir, 1878)

Museums

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• Nelidus australis Chaudoir, M. de 1878. Descriptions de genres nouveaux et d'espèces inédites de la famille des Carabiques. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 53(2): 1-80 [50].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP ♂ (found in 1968 by B.P. Moore), Paroo River, QLD or NSW.

Generic Combinations

• Cerabilia (Feronista) australis (Chaudoir, 1878). —
  Will, K.W. 2020. Revision of Cerabilia Laporte, 1867 (Carabidae: Abacetini) of Australia and New Caledonia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 62: 15-107
• Cerabilia australis (Chaudoir, 1878). —
  Will, K. 2015. Resolution of taxonomic problems in Australian Harpalini, Abacetini, Pterostichini, and Oodini (Coleoptera, Carabidae). ZooKeys 545: 131–137 [134]

Introduction

Cerabilia australis is known only from the holotype specimen and was reported as coming from the Paroo River area. However, this specimen is unlike any Australian species of carabid and is very similar to Cerabilia species from New Zealand. It may in fact be a synonym of one of the described New Zealand species, but until their types are studied this cannot be established (Will 2015)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Will, K. 2015. Resolution of taxonomic problems in Australian Harpalini, Abacetini, Pterostichini, and Oodini (Coleoptera, Carabidae). ZooKeys 545: 131–137 [134]

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