Species Dicranoglossus resplendens (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Helluosoma resplendens Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [22].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 6 specimens, Port Densison, QLD.
• Aenigma parvulum Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [323].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (?AM), Australia (as New Holland).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1914. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part v. Tribe Helluonini. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 568-614 [585]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, predator, under bark, volant.

General References

Chaudoir, M. de 1872. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Carabiques de la tribu des Troncatipennes. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. Paris 2 23: 101-107, 138-143, 168-172, 212-221, 241-250 [217] (taxonomy)

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