Genus Chlamydopsis Westwood, 1869

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• Chlamydopsis Westwood, J.O. 1869. Remarks on the genus Ectrephes, and descriptions of new exotic Coleoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1869(4): 315-320 [317].

  Type species:

   Chlamydopsis striatella Westwood, 1869 by subsequent designation, see Lewis, G. 1903. On new species of Histeridae and notices of others. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 12: 417-429 [428].
• Byzenia King, R.L. 1869. On the Byrrhides of Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2(1): 71–75 [74].

  Type species:

   Byzenia formicicola King, 1869 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mazur, S. 1997. A world catalogue of Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea). Genus Supplement 1997: 1-373 [Date published Nov/1997] [4]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NT, Qld: Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, SW coastal, W plateau
• Indonesia
  • Irian Jaya
• Papua New Guinea

Distribution References

Notes

Caterino, M.S. 2003. New species of Chlamydopsis (Histeridae: Chlamydopsinae), with a review and phylogenetic analysis of all known species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49: 159–235 assigned species to informal species groups as follows:

stratipennis group
stratipennis Lea
leai Oke
compressipes Lea
pallida Lea
rana Caterino
antennata Caterino
trichonota Caterino

strigicollis group
reticulata Lea
dimorpha Caterino
strigicollis Oke
mormolyce Lea
monteithi Caterino
setifera Caterino
lawrencei Caterino

pygidialis group
pygidialis Blackburn
carinicollis Lea
sericollis Lea
setipennis Oke
convergens Caterino
coronis Caterino
erupta Caterino
transversa Caterino

longipes group
longipes Lea
inaequalis Blackburn
agilis Lea

ectatommae group
ectatommae Lea
kununurra Caterino
acutricha Caterino
myrmecophila Caterino
variolosa Lea
mallee Caterino
pechi Caterino
loculosa Lea
degallieri Caterino
lucifer Caterino
bataviae Caterino
burnetti Caterino
zborowskii Caterino
pluriseta Caterino
contorta Caterino
pilosipes Caterino
bifovaecollis (Oke)
nielseni Caterino
australis Caterino
lepida Caterino

epipleuralis group
epipleuralis Lea
sculptus Oke
convexa Caterino
striatella Westwood
formicola (King)
dispersa Caterino
weiri Caterino
crowcrofti Caterino
latipes Lea
macmillani Caterino
nullarbor Caterino
rotunda Caterino
latipennis Lea
carinota Caterino
inquilina Lewis
detecti Lea
storeyi Caterino
matthewsi Caterino
cavicollis Lea

Unplaced to group
tuberculata Lea
mareeba Caterino
parallelus Caterino

 

General References

Caterino, M.S. 2003. New species of Chlamydopsis (Histeridae: Chlamydopsinae), with a review and phylogenetic analysis of all known species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49: 159-235 (revision, phylogeny, new species, and species groups)

 

History of changes

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