Species Clivina (Clivina) cava Putzeys, 1866

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• Clivina cava Putzeys, J. 1866. Révision des Clivinides de l'Australie. Entomologische Zeitschrift 27: 33-43 [38].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♂ (probable), Moreton Bay, Queensland.

  Subsequent designation 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 [357].

  Type locality references:

  Putzeys, J. 1866. Révision générale des Clivinides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 10: 1-242 [185].
• Clivina planifrons Sloane, T.G. 1907. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XV New genera and species of Carabidae, with some notes of synonymy (Clivinini, Scaritini, Cuneipectini, Trigonotomini and Lebiini). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 346-381 [347].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC (Sloane coll.) fragments of 1 specimen located, Brisbane, QLD.

  Subsequent designation 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 [357].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [356] (Clivina planifrons synonymised with C. cava)

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

History of changes