Subspecies Cicindela (Hypaetha) rafflesia rafflesia Chaudoir, 1852

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cicindela rafflesia Chaudoir, M. de 1852. Mémoire sur la famille des Carabiques. 3e partie. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 25(1): 3-104 [13].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).
• Cicindela montravelii Blanchard, C.E. 1853. Description des Insectes. pp. 1-422 in Dumont-d'Urville, J. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée pendant les années 1837–1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont-d'Urville Capitaine de vaisseau. Atlas, Zoologie. Paris : Gide et Cie et J. Baudry Vol. 4 422 pp. [published between 1842–1853] [8].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Raffles Bay, NT (as rafles-Bay, Nouvelle-Hollande).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1906. Revision of the Cicindelidae of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 31: 309-360 pls XXV-XXXI [359]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, riparian, sea beaches, terrestrial.

History of changes