Species Coptocarpus australis (Dejean, 1831)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oodes australis Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1831. Spécies général des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. V viii 883 pp. [671].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♀, Melbourne, VIC (as Nouvelle Hollande).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Erwin, T.L. 1974. The genus Coptocarpus Chaudoir of the Australian Region with notes on related African species. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Oodini). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 184: 1–25 (type locality).
• Oodes reichei La Ferté-Sénectère, F.T. de 1851. Révision de la tribu des Patellimanes de Dejean, Coléoptères pentamères de la famille des Carabiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2 9: 209-294 [271].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (type lost), Swan River, W.A.
• Oodes convexus 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)] [65].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♂, King George Sound, VIC [sic].

  Subsequent designation references:

  Erwin, T.L. 1974. The genus Coptocarpus Chaudoir of the Australian Region with notes on related African species. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Oodini). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 184: 1–25 [17].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chaudoir, M. de 1882. Monographie des Oodides. Deuxième partie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 6 2: 485-554 [510]
• Erwin, T.L. 1974. The genus Coptocarpus Chaudoir of the Australian Region with notes on related African species. (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Oodini). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 184: 1–25 [17]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, nocturnal, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Moore, B.P. 1979. Chemical defense in Carabids and its bearing on phylogeny. pp. 193-203 in Erwin, T.L., Ball, G.E., Whitehead, D.R. & Halpern, A.L. (eds). Carabid beetles: Their evolution, natural history, and classification. The Hague : W. Junk vii 635 pp. [201]

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