Species Geoscaptus laevissimus Chaudoir, 1855

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• Geoscaptus laevissimus Chaudoir, M. de 1855. Mémoire sur la famille des Carabiques 5e partie. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 28(19): 1-110 [10].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1927. Carabidae: Carabinae II. pp. 315-622 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 1 Pars 92. [Date published 22/Dec/1927] [466].
• Scarites geryon Macleay, W.J. 1863. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 55-74 [68].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Upper Darling, NSW.
• Scarites damastes Macleay, W.J. 1863. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 55-74 [68].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Murrumbidgee, NSW.
• Scarites jacksoniensis Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [193].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM, Lane Cove, Port Jackson, NSW.
• Scarites planiusculus Macleay, W.J. 1865. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 3rd paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 176-198 [193].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM, Victoria River (Mitchell's Exped.), NT.
• Scarites bostocki 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, Nickol Bay, WA.

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 [106]
• Csiki, E. 1927. Carabidae: Carabinae II. pp. 315-622 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 1 Pars 92. [Date published 22/Dec/1927] [466]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

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

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