Genus Drypta Latreille, 1796

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Regional Maps

• Drypta Latreille, P.A. 1796. Précis des Caractères génériques des Insectes, disposés dans un order naturel par citoyen Latreille. Brive : F. Bourdeaux xiv 201 pp. 5 pls. [75].

  Type species:

   Cicindela emarginata Fabricius, 1792 by subsequent designation, see Latreille, P.A. 1810. Considération Générales sur l'Order Naturel des Animaux Composant les Classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes; avec un Tableau Méthodique de leurs Genres Disposés en Familles. Paris : F. Schoell viii 444 pp. [this work is the subject of Opinions 11 and 136, ICZN, and is on the Official List of Works approved as available for Zoological Nomenclature] [164, 426].
• Desera Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1825. Species général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. I xxx 463 pp. [28] [subjective junior synonym; the author is not Hope (1838) in accordance with art. 11.6 (see Liang et al. 2004)].

  Type species:

   Drypta longicollis MacLeay, 1825 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Hope, F.W. 1838. The Coleopterist's Manual, containing the predaceous and water beetles of Linneus and Fabricius. London : Henry G. Bohn Vol. 2 xvi 168 pp. 4 pls. [105]; Bousquet, Y. 2002. Additions and corrections to the world catalogue of genus-group names of Geadephaga (Coleoptera) published by Wolfgang Lorenz (1998). Folia Heyrovskyana Suppl.(9): 1-78.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Liang, H., Kavanaugh, D.H. & Tian, M. 2004. Notes on Drypta longicollis MacLeay and the Status of the Genus-group Name Desera Dejean, 1825 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Dryptini). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 55(18): 377383

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical and warm temperate regions.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), 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), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Aug-2013		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		09-Aug-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)