Species Nurus brevis Motschulsky, 1865
- Nurus brevis Motschulsky, V. 1865. Énumération des nouvelles espèces de Coléoptères rapportés de ses voyages. 4-ème article (Suite). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 38: 227-313 [236].
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMM ♀, Nouvelle Hollande [= Australia]. - Feronia solandersii 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)] [118].
Type data:
Lectotype MCG (The name ‘Clarence River’ was used as a broad district name that included the Clarence River watershed and adjacent areas during the early days of settlement in the mid-1800s when the types were collected. The species does not occur in the Clarence River watershed but in a very restricted part of the Richmond River drainage a little further north (Will & Monteith 2018)), Clarence River, NSW.Subsequent designation references:
Straneo, S.L. 1936. Sui tipi dei Platysmatini (Coleopt. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau, nel Museo Civico di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 59: 246-259 [248].
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Csiki, E. 1930. Carabidae II: Harpalinae IV. pp. 529-738 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 112. [Date published 3/Jun/1930] [541]
Introduction
This species belongs to Nurus sensu stricto (Will & Monteith 2018)
Distribution
States
New South Wales
Extra Distribution Information
Nurus brevis now occurs in two disjunct areas about 50 km apart. The easternmost occurrence is in dry lowland rainforests along the Wilson River in and adjacent to the city of Lismore. The other population is in wetter rainforests of the Cambridge Plateau at the southern end of the Richmond Range as well as the dry rainforests in foothills a little further south near Mallanganee. These two populations might have been contiguous before complete clearing of vegetation along the connecting Richmond River valley took place (Will & Monteith 2018)
IBRA
NSW: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: burrower, closed forest, flightless, predator, terrestrial.
General References
Will, K. & Monteith, G.B. 2018. Multi-locus phylogeny, taxonomic review and description of new species of Australian 'Nurus' (Sensu Stricto) Motschulsky, 1865 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini). Australian Entomologist 45(4): 353–388
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Apr-2019 | CARABIDAE Latreille, 1802 | 06-Feb-2019 | MODIFIED | |
| 13-Aug-2013 | 13-Aug-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 19-Jul-2012 | 23-Jul-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |