Subspecies Euryscaphus obesus obesus (Macleay, 1863)

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• Scaraphites obesus Macleay, W.J. 1863. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 55-74 [65].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen located, Swan River, WA.
• Euryscaphus bipunctatus 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) SAMA, SA.
• Scaraphites howittii 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 (Howitt coll.)*, Port Augusta, SA.
• Euryscaphus tatei Blackburn, T. 1888. Descriptions of twenty new species of South Australian Coleoptera. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 1-11 [1].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Ooldea, SA.
• Euryscaphus ferox 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] [1109].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) not found, Tintinallogy and Wilcannia, NSW; AM K12527, Tintinallogy, nr Wilcannia, NSW [31° 34' S 143° 22' E].
• Euryscaphus chaudoiri Blackburn, T. 1892. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part XI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7(I): 65-151 [82].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Morgan, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bänninger, M. 1940. On Australian Pamborini, Ozaenini and Scaratini (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Novitates Zoologicae 42: 203-213 [210]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: 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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