Species Demetrida brachinodera (Chaudoir, 1852)

Museums

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• Demetrias brachinoderus Chaudoir, M. de 1852. Mémoire sur la famille des Carabiques. 3e partie. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 25(1): 3-104 [46].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Melbourne, NSW (as Nouvelles Galles du Sud).
• Xanthophaea pallida Olliff, A.S. 1885. Contribution towards a knowledge of the Coleoptera of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 10: 467-472 [468].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K197692, King Georges Sound, WA and Batemans Bay, NSW [35° 2' 56" S 117° 56' 2" E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1917. Carabidae from tropical Australia. (New genera and species, notes and synonymy, and synoptic tables. Tribes Scaritini, Harpalini, Odacanthini, Lebiini, and Helluonini). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 42: 406-438 [427]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, on eucalypts, predator, under bark, volant.

General References

Britton, E.B. 1941. The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of New Zealand. Part II. Tribes Lebiini and Pentagonicini. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 10: 185-196 [188] (taxonomy)

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