Species Clivina (Clivina) atrata Putzeys, 1863

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• Clivina atrata Putzeys, J. 1863. Postscriptum ad Clivinidarum monographiam atque de quibusdam aliis. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 18: 1-78 pl. 2 [54] [subsequently misspelled as attrata by Sloane, T.G. 1896. On the Australian Clivinides (Fam. Carabidae). Revision of the Australian species of the genus Clivina with the description of a new genus, Clivinarchus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21: 143–257 [153]].

  Type data:

   Holotype RIB ♂, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Putzeys, J. 1866. Révision des Clivinides de l'Australie. Entomologische Zeitschrift 27: 33-43 [36]; Sloane, T.G. 1896. On the Australian Clivinides (Fam. Carabidae). Revision of the Australian species of the genus Clivina with the description of a new genus, Clivinarchus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21: 143-257; Baehr, M. 2008. The Australian Clivinini 1. The genera Ancus Putzeys, Aspidoglossa Putzeys, Clivinarchus Sloane, Platysphyrus Sloane, Pseudoclivina Kult, Rhysocara Sloane, Syleter Andrews, the subgenera Paraclivina Kult, Semiclivina Kult, and the atrata-, biplagiata-, brevicornis-, coronata-, coryzoides-, cribrosa-, debilis-, denticollis-, grandiceps-, incerta-, lobata-, obliquata-, obsoleta-, orbitalis-, planiceps-, sulcaticeps-, tranquebaria- and wurargae-groups of the genus Clivina Latreille. With a note on a record of the genus Parathlibops Basilewsky (Scapterini) (Carabidae, Scaritinae). Coleoptera 12: 1-220 [52-54].
• Clivina obliterata Sloane, T.G. 1896. On the Australian Clivinides (Fam. Carabidae). Revision of the Australian species of the genus Clivina with the description of a new genus, Clivinarchus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21: 143-257 [154].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 2 specimens, Carrathool, Mulwala, NSW, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Moore, B.P. 1987. Suborder Adephaga. pp. 17-366 in Houston, W.W.K. & Richardson, B.J.R. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 viii 444 pp.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: fossorial, mud, predator, riparian, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Baehr, M. 2015. Revision of the Australian Clivinini 2. The ambigua-, bataviae-, bullata-, cava-, emarginata-, heterogena-, impressiceps-, and sloanei-groups of the genus Clivina Latreille, the new genus Rubidiclivina, and additions to the 1st part (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Scaritinae). Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera 111: 59–446 [379]

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