Species Coryphomodes giraffa (Schaufuss, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Batrisus giraffa Schaufuss, L.W. 1880. Beschreibung sechzig neuer Pselaphiden. In: Der Société entomologique de Belgique zu Brüssel zur Feier Ihres fünfundzwanzigsten Stiftungstages die herzlichsten Festgrüsse aus dem Museum Ludwig Salvator in Oberblasewitz-Dresden. Dresden-Oberblasewitz : F. Thomas pp. 5-35. [31].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP ♂♀ (MNHN w/3M & 3F //Australie Batris. giraffa N. Hall//), Pine Mountain nr Brisbane, QLD; DEIB ♂♀ (DEI w/M & F //Pine Mountain, Brisbane//), Pine Mountain nr Brisbane, QLD.

 

Generic Combinations

• Coryphomodes giraffa (Schaufuss, 1880).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

Lea, A.M. 1912. Descriptions of new species of Australian Coleoptera. Part IX. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 36: 426-478, pl. XVII [Date published 8 Feb. 1912] [429] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement resurrected from synonymy of cyclops Raffray, 1900)

Raffray, A. 1900. Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131-249, pl. 1 [Date published 8 Aug. 1900] [137] (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as junior subjective synonym of cyclops Raffray, 1900)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Mar-2016		20-Apr-2011	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)