Species Euryscaphus dilatatus Macleay, 1865

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• Euryscaphus dilatatus Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [188].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K2818, Mulwala, NSW [35° 58' 55" S 146° 4" E].
• Euryscaphus minor Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [189].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM 1 specimen located, Victoria River (Mitchell's Exped.), NT.
• Scaraphites affinis 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)] [44].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV 1 specimen located, Coopers Creek, QLD.
• Scaraphites hopei 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)] [45].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCG, inland Australia (as centre, New Holland).
• Euryscaphus arenarius Sloane, T.G. 1888. A note on the Carenides, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1101-1122 [7 Dec. 1888] [1108].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) not found, Mulwala, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bänninger, M. 1940. On Australian Pamborini, Ozaenini and Scaratini (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Novitates Zoologicae 42: 203-213 [211]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Finke (FIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: desert, flightless, fossorial, hummock grassland, low open woodland, low shrubland, nocturnal, open scrub, predator, sandy soil, tall open shrubland, terrestrial, tussock grassland.

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