Species Gigadema nocte (Newman, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aenigma noctis Newman, E. 1842. Entomological notes (continued from p. 223). The Entomologist 1(26): 413-415 [Date published Dec. 1842] [413] [as Enigma noctis].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Woodside, ?near Sydney, NSW.
• Gigadema titanum Thomson, J. 1859. Description de deux espèces nouvelles de Carabiques. Arcana Naturae 1: 93–94 [93 pl. 5 figs 7-8].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Port Denison, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Gestro, R. 1875. Note sopra alcuni Carabici appartenenti al Museo Civico di Genova con descrizione di specie nuove. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 1 7(2): 850-894 [879].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1914. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part v. Tribe Helluonini. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 568-614 [605]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, predator, terrestrial, under bark, volant.

General References

Gestro, R. 1875. Note sopra alcuni Carabici appartenenti al Museo Civico di Genova con descrizione di specie nuove. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 1 7(2): 850-894 [878] (taxonomy)

History of changes