Species Elaphropus (Tachyura) spenceri (Sloane, 1896)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tachys spenceri Sloane, T.G. 1896. Carabidae. pp. 380–384 in B. Spencer (ed.) Report of the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Pt II, Zoology Melbourne : Melville, Mullin & Slade. [380].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) DEIB 22 specimens, Ellery Creek, Missionary Plains, Palm Creek, Rudalls Creek, Paisley Bluff and MacDonnell Range, NT.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, riparian, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes