Species Cratogaster melas (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tibarisus melas 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)] [117].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Rockhampton and Brisbane, QLD, Clarence River, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) MCG 3 specimens.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1941. Sui tipi dei Pterostichini (Coleopt. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau nel Museo Civico di Genova Nota III. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 61: 83-94 [93].
• Feronia (Pachidius) sulcata Chaudoir, M. de 1865. Essai sur les Féronides de l'Australie et de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 38(3-4): 65-112 [82] [junior homonym of Cratogaster sulcata Blanchard, 1853].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP both sexes, Moreton Bay, QLD.
• Tibarisus ater Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [106].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 3 specimens, Gayndah, QLD; AM 2 specimens, Gayndah, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [594]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

General References

Chaudoir, M. de 1874. Supplément à l'essai sur les Féronies de l'Australie publié dans le Bulletin des Naturalistes de Moscou en 1865 T. ii, p. 56, Accompangé d'observations sur la synonymie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 6: 569–601 [574] (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. [200]

Moore, B.P. & Wallbank, B.E. 1968. Chemical composition of the defensive secretion in carabid beetles and its importance as a taxonomic character. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 37(5–6): 62-72 [65]

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