Species Demetrida suturata (Newman, 1842)

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• Calleida suturata Newman, E. 1842. List of insects collected at Port Phillip, South Australia, by Edmund Thomas Higgins, Esq. The Entomologist 1(23): 361-369 [Date published Aug. 1842] [367].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Port Phillip, SA (in error for VIC).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

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

General References

Chaudoir, M. de 1872. Monographie des Callidides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 15: 97-204 [190] (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. [201]

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