Species Ctenisophus impressus Sharp, 1874

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• Ctenistes impressus Sharp, D. 1874. Descriptions of new genera and species of Pselaphidae and Scydmaenidae from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 12: 483-518 [Date published Dec. 1874] [485].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ (BMNH w/M HT //Type H.T./ West Australia/ Sharp Coll. etc./ Ctenistes impressus [M] Type D.S.//), WA.
  Paratype(s) MNHP ♂ (MNHP w/M "cotype" //Australie/ Ctenistes impressus type D.S./ Australia//), WA.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • South Australia
  • Victoria
  • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: inquiline (host(s): Coptotermes lacteus (Froggatt, 1898) [RHINOTERMITIDAE] Milk Termite; Rhytidoponera mayri (Emery, 1883) [FORMICIDAE]; Eutermes sp. [TERMITIDAE]), terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Collected with ant, Rhytidoponera mayri (Emery, 1883) (= Ectatomma mayri Emery, 1883), see Lea, A.M. 1912. Australian and tasmanian Coleoptera inhabiting or resorting to the nests of ants, bees, and termites. Supplement. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 25: 31–78, pl. II [42] and termites, Eutermessp. and Termes lacteus (Froggatt, 1898), see Lea, A.M. 1910. Australian and tasmanian Coleoptera inhabiting or resorting to the nests of ants, bees, and termites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 23: 116–230, pls 25–27 [155].

 

Diagnosis References

Raffray, A. 1900. Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131-249, pl. 1 [Date published 8 Aug. 1900] [211] (redescription)

 

General References

Raffray, A. 1900. Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131-249, pl. 1 [Date published 8 Aug. 1900] [211] (redescription)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Jun-2022	STAPHYLINIDAE	07-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	27-May-2022	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
21-Mar-2016	STAPHYLINIDAE	07-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
21-Mar-2016	Pselaphinae Latreille, 1802	07-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
01-Jul-2020		07-Jun-2022	MODIFIED
		07-Jun-2022	MODIFIED