Species Euryscaphus waterhousei (Macleay, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scaraphites waterhousei Macleay, W.J. 1864. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 2nd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 134-154 [147].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, SA or NT.
• Euryscaphus titanus Sloane, T.G. 1890. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. II Six new species of Carabidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4: 1288-1296 [1288].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.), MacDonnell Range, NT.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1894. A second note on the Carenides, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 8: 448-483 [455]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

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.

History of changes