Species Cicindela (Archidela) nigrina Macleay, 1864

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• Cicindela nigrina Macleay, W.J. 1864. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera from Port Denison. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 106-130, pl. IX [107].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Port Denison, QLD.
• Cicindela scitula Sloane, T.G. 1909. Second supplement to the "Revision of the Cicindelidae of Australia". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34: 296-301 [298].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.) ♂ (presumed destroyed), Pine Creek, NT.
• Cicindela nigrina rugosicollis Horn, W. 1913. Fünfzig neue Cicindelinae. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 79(2): 1–33 [32].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) DEIB, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Freitag, R. 1979. Reclassification, phylogeny and zoogeography of the Australian species of Cicindela (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 27(66): 1-99 [25].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Horn, W. 1915. Coleoptera Adephaga (Family: Carabidae, subfamily: Cicindelinae). Genera Insectorum 82c: 209-486 pls 16-23 [314]
• Freitag, R. 1979. Reclassification, phylogeny and zoogeography of the Australian species of Cicindela (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 27(66): 1-99 [25]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, riparian, sea beaches, terrestrial.

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