Species Craspedophorus insignis (Schaum, 1853)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Isotarsus insignis Schaum, H.R. 1853. Quelques observations sur le groupe des Panagéites et description de sept nouvelle espèces. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 1: 429-441 [435 pl. 13 fig. V].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, Brazil (as Brésil); locality is incorrect as this genus does not occur in South America.

  Type locality references:

  Chaudoir, M. de 1879. Essai monographique sur les Panagéides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 21: 83-186 (pp. 83-84 published in 1878) [129].
• Craspedophorus convexus Macleay, W.J. 1864. Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera from Port Denison. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 106-130, pl. IX [114].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Port Denison, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chaudoir, M. de 1879. Essai monographique sur les Panagéides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 21: 83-186 (pp. 83-84 published in 1878) [127]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, low open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Andrewes, H.E. 1919. On the types of Oriental Carabidae in the British Museum, and in the Hope Dept. of the Oxford University Museum. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1919: 119-217 [127] (taxonomy)

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. [202]

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