Species Craspedophorus australasiae (Chaudoir, 1850)
- Epicosmus australasiae Chaudoir, M. de 1850. Mémoire sur la famille des Carabiques. 2e partie. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 23(1): 3-85 and 349-460 [419].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP 5 specimens, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande). - Epicosmus froggatti Sloane, T.G. 1903. Studies in Australian Entomology. No XII New Carabidae (Panageini, Bembidiini, Pogonini, Platysmatini, Platynini, Lebiini, with revisional lists of genera and speecis [sic], some notes on synonymy, etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 566-642 [571].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.), Kalgoorlie, WA.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Sloane, T.G. 1923. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVIII New genera and species of Carabidae. (Scaritini, Pterostichini, Merizodini, Bembidiini, Trechini, Odacanthini, Panagaeini, Licinini, and Lebiini). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48: 17-39 [33]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Peebinga, Kudgee and type locality.
IBRA
NSW, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tanami (TAN)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: flightless, low open scrub, predator, terrestrial.
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.
History of changes
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| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |