Species Gnathaphanus multipunctatus (Macleay, 1888)

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• Diaphoromerus multipunctatus Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of King's Sound and its vicinity. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 443-480 [467].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 3 specimens and fragment, King Sound, WA; SAMA 2 specimens, King Sound, WA.
• Harpalus impressipennis 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)] [100] [junior homonym of Harpalus impressipennis Dejean, 1892].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Rockhampton, QLD.
• Gnathaphanus darwini Blackburn, T. 1888. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 805-875 [808].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH immature F located, NT.
• Dioryche upolensis Csiki, E. 1915. Nachträge. Carabidae der Samoa Inseln. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 91: 163-164 [163].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNH, QLD.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1932. Carabidae III: Harpalinae VI. pp. 1023-1278 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 3 Pars 121. [Date published 28/May/1932] [1044].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Moore, B.P. 1987. Suborder Adephaga. pp. 17-366 in Houston, W.W.K. & Richardson, B.J.R. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 viii 444 pp.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: granivore, omnivore, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Moore, B.P. 1992. The Carabidae of Lord Howe Island (Coleoptera: Carabidae). pp. 159-173 in Noonan, G.R., Ball, G.E. & Stork, N.E. (eds). The Biogeography of Ground Beetles of Mountains and Islands. Andover, Hampshire, UK : Intercept 256 pp. [172] (Norfolk Island record (Philip Island))

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