Species Eurylychnus dyschirioides (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

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• Maoria dyschirioides 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)] [78].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCG 1 specimen, Crooked River, VIC; NMV (Howitt coll.) 1 specimen, Crooked River, VIC.

  Type locality references:

  Britton, E.B. 1949. The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of New Zealand. Part III. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77: 533-581 [538].

  Secondary source:

   Lay, S. 2023. A taxonomic review of the Australian genus Eurylychnus Bates (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini). Zootaxa 5330(2): 247-264 [253] (re-description).
• Eurylychnus olliffi Bates, H.W. 1891. Note on three Australian Carabidae. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 2 2: 285-287 [286].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Mt Kosciusko, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1911. Carabidae from Dorrigo, N.S.W. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 823-843 [825]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), 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), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open forest, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

General References

Moore, B.P. & Wallbank, B.E. 1968. Chemical composition of the defensive secretion in carabid beetles and its importance as a taxonomic character. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 37(5–6): 62-72 [65]

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