Species Dicraspeda obscura (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Casnonia obscura 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)] [14].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG ♂ (coll. Castelnau), Rockhampton, QLD.

Generic Combinations

• Dicraspeda obscura (Castelnau, 1867). —
  Csiki, E. 1932. Carabidae III: Harpalinae VII. pp. 1279-1598 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 3 Pars 124. [Date published 7/Nov/1932] [1537]
• Eudalia obscura (Castelnau, 1867). —
  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 [418]
• Arame obscura (Castelnau, 1867). —
  Sloane, T.G. 1923. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVIII New genera and species of Carabidae. (Scaritini, Pterostichini, Merizodini, Bembidiini, Trechini, Odacanthini, Panagaeini, Licinini, and Lebiini). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48: 17-39 [31]

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: hygrophilous, predator, volant.

Diagnosis References

Baehr, M. 2005. A revision of the Australian Odacanthine ground beetles, including checklist for Australia and the Papuan subregion (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 50(2): 133-193 [150] (diagnosis; supplementary description)

General References

Baehr, M. 2005. A revision of the Australian Odacanthine ground beetles, including checklist for Australia and the Papuan subregion (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 50(2): 133-193 [150] (new records)

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