Species Chlaenius ophonoides Fairmaire, 1843

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• Chlaenius ophonoides Fairmaire, L. 1843. Description de trois nouvelles espèces de Coléoptères de l'Océanie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 1: 11–15 [11 pl. 1 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).
• Chlaenius peregrinus Chaudoir, M. de 1856. Mémoire sur la famille des Carabiques 6e partie. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 29(2): 187-291 [264].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).
• Chlaenius viridis Montrouzier, P. 1860. Essai sur la faune entomologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (Balade) et des îles des Pins, Art, Lifui etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 8: 233-308 [236] [junior homonym ofChlaenius viridis Ménétries, 1832].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Balade, New Caledonia.
• Chlaenius viridescens Gemminger, M. & Harold, E. von 1868. Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus autoribus. Cicindelidae, Carabidae. Monachii : E.H. Gummi Vol. 1 xxxvi 424 pp. [228] [nom. nov. for Chlaenius viridis Montrouzier, 1860].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chaudoir, M. de 1876. Étude monographie des Masoréides, des Tetragonodérides et du genre Nematotarsus. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 51(2): 1-84 [72]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, nocturnal, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Moore, B.P. 1992. The Carabidae of Lord Howe Island (Coleoptera: Carabidae). pp. 159-173 in Noonan, G.R., Ball, G.E. & Stork, N.E. (eds). The Biogeography of Ground Beetles of Mountains and Islands. Andover, Hampshire, UK : Intercept 256 pp. [168] (Lord Howe Island record)

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