Species Conopterum superbum (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Carenum superbum 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.) 1 specimen located, Lachlan River, NSW.
• Carenidium kreuslerae Macleay, W.J. 1869. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 4th paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 58-70 [70].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), near Gawler, SA.
• Carenidium lacustre Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [326].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC(MMUS), Lake Albert near Wagga Wagga, 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 [481]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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: flightless, fossorial, nocturnal, open scrub, predator, sandy soil, terrestrial.

History of changes