Species Geoscaptus cacus (Macleay, 1863)

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• Scarites cacus Macleay, W.J. 1863. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 55-74 [67].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Port Denison, QLD.
• Scarites approximatus Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [191].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Victoria River (Mitchell's Exped.), NT.
• Scarites subporcatulus Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [192].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM, NT (as "Northern Australia, Hely's Expedition").
• Scarites waterhousei Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [192].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, near Adelaide, SA.
• Scarites mitchellii 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)] [57].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Darling River, NSW.
• Scarites substriatus 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)] [57].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Darling River, NSW.
• Scarites ruficornis 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)] [58].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCG, Manning River, NSW; NMV, Manning River, NSW.
• Scarites bipunctatus 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)] [58].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Rockhampton, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1905. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 30: 103-135 [108]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: fossorial, hygrophilous, nocturnal, predator, terrestrial, volant.

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