Species Dandenong sulciventris Chandler, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dandenong sulciventris Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [194].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Dandenong Ranges National Park, Sherbrooke Forest, 1 km E Ferny Creek, VIC.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

Diagnosis

Length 2.0-2.2 mm. Body minutely and sparsely granulate. Head with antennomeres X barely larger than IX, clubs formed by antennomeres XI; antennal tubercles distinct but not prominent. Pronotum with distinct median longitudinal sulcus on disc. Elytra lacking discal stria. Thorax with small metasternal foveae. Male eyes consisting of about 45-50 facets; mesotrochanters bluntly angulate and carinate ventrally; metafemora curved posteriorly, with groove in apical two-thirds on mesal margin that receives metatibiae; metatibiae with two broadly rounded lobes on dorsal margin at base. Visible sternites 3-4 (V-VI) obliquely and convergently impressed laterally, impressions broad and shallow, with setae oriented differently from setae on other areas of sternites; 5 (VII) with apical margin protruding as ventral lip, with small tuft of setae at lateral margins; 6 (VIII) with blunt broad tubercles at base near lateral margins. Female eyes consisting of about 6-7 facets; lacking modifications of abdomen and metatibiae; apical segment of abdomen elongately triangular.

 

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [194]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)