Species Gnathaphanus melbournensis (Castelnau, 1867)

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• Harpalus melbournensis 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)] [97].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Melbourne, VIC.
• Harpalus paroensis 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)] [98].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Paroo River, NSW.
• Harpalus marginicollis 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)] [103].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Melbourne, VIC.
• Harpalus adelaidae 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)] [108].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Adelaide and Port Lincoln, SA and King George Sound, WA.
• Harpalus planipennis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [101].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Gayndah, QLD.
• Harpalus angustatus Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [102].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K205665 1 specimen located, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
• Harpalus aeneonitens Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [102].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K197701 1 located, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
• Harpalus atroviridis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [103].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K205660, K205662 3 specimens, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
• Harpalus gayndahensis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [102].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM K14031 1 specimen, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E]; ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen, Gayndah, QLD.
• Mirosarus insularis Bates, H.W. 1878. New genera and species of Carabidae from Tasmania. Cistula Entomologica 2: 317-326 [319].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, south or central TAS.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chaudoir, M. de 1878. Les Harpaliens d'Australie d'après la collection de M. le Compte de Castelnau et la mienne. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 12: 475–517 [510]
• 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] [1043]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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. [168] (Lord Howe Island record)

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