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Species Clivina (Clivina) cylindripennis Sloane, 1905

Introduction

Baehr (2015) reports of a specimen found in ANIC from Carnot Bay labelled “paratype” by Darlington that also Moore et al. (1987) apparently regarded as a specimen of the type series of C. cylindripennis. It is labelled: “Carnot Bay C.F. / very near C. atridorsis Sl / PARATYPE ? of cylindripennis Sl. PJD”. However, comparison with the description (Sloane 1905a: 729) clearly demonstrates that it cannot belong to this species, because it has the 4th stria combined with the 5th, the punctation of the striae is not as coarse, the elytra are not cylindric, and the median part of the clypeus is slightly produced. Moreover, the specimen bears a notice written by Sloane “very near C. atridorsis Sl” which denomination indeed is correct. Thus, apparently, the type(s) of C. cylindripennis are lost and the above specimen belongs to the not related species C. atridorsis Sloane. Because it is impossible to allude any other species unambiguously to the description of C. cylindripennis, this species for the present is being regarded a nomen dubium.

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
13-Aug-2013 13-Aug-2013 MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012 23-Jul-2012 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)