Species Demetrida grandis (Chaudoir, 1848)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Xanthophaea grandis Chaudoir, M. de 1848. Mémoire sur la famille des Carabiques. 1e Partie. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 21(1): 3-134 [75].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 2 specimens (not found in 1968 by B.P. Moore), Melbourne (près de la Rivière des Cygnes), this species is not found in WA thus the reference to Swan River was in error.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), 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)

History of changes