Species Conopterum riverinae (Macleay, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Carenum riverinae Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [181].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Lower Murrumbidgee, at Kerarbury, NSW.
• Carenum amabile Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [49].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV (Howitt coll.), Lachlan River, NSW.
• Monocentrum insigne Chaudoir, M. de 1868. Note sur le genre Carenum, Bonelli. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 11: 137-151 [146].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, N Australia.
• Conopterum violaceum Macleay, W.J. 1887. Miscellanea entomologica. No. III - The Scaritidae of New Holland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 115-134 [127].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen located, Mudgee District, NSW.
• Conopterum littorale Macleay, W.J. 1887. Miscellanea entomologica. No. III - The Scaritidae of New Holland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 115-134 [128].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen located, Richmond River, NSW.
• Conopterum barnardi Macleay, W.J. 1887. Miscellanea entomologica. No. III - The Scaritidae of New Holland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 115-134 [129].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen located, Dawson River, QLD.
• Conopterum incornutum Macleay, W.J. 1887. Miscellanea entomologica. No. III - The Scaritidae of New Holland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 1: 115-134 [129].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen located, Richmond River, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1894. A second note on the Carenides, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 8: 448-483 [482]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, low open woodland, nocturnal, open scrub, predator, sandy soil, terrestrial.

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