Species Eudranes carinatus Sharp, 1892

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• Eudranes carinatus Sharp, D. 1892. Descriptions of two new Pselaphidae found by Mr. J. J. Walker in Australia and China. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 28: 240-242 [Date published Sept. 1892] [242].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ (//Eudranes carinatus Type D.S. Adelaide Riv. Australia/ Type H.T./ Adelaide River Australia Walker 1890/ Sharp Coll. 1905-313// An additional female may be a syntype), Adelaide River, northwest Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: inquiline, terrestrial.

 

Diagnosis

E. carinatus lacks obvious tufts of setae, and the lateral lobes of the paratergites are four or more times as long as wide.

 

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [468]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)