Species Harpalus australasiae Dejean, 1829

Museums

Regional Maps

• Harpalus australasiae Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1829. Species général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. IV vii 520 pp. [Nov. 1829] [386].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).

 

Generic Combinations

• Diaphoromerus australasiae (Dejean, 1829). —
  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 [480] (new combination)
• Hypharpax australasiae (Dejean, 1829). —
  Bates, H.W. 1874. On the geodephagous Coleoptera of New Zealand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 13: 233-246, 270-277 [272] (new combination)
  Larochelle, A. & Larivière, M.-C. 2001. Carabidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): Catalogue. Fauna of New Zealand 43: 285 pp.
• Notiobia australasiae (Dejean, 1829). —
  Noonan, G.R. 1973. The Anisodactylines (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalini): Classificaton, evolution, and zoogeography. Quaestiones Entomologicae 9: 266-480

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Harpalus australasiae non Dejean, 1829. —
  Larochelle, A. & Larivière, M.-C. 2005. Harpalini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae). Fauna of New Zealand 53: 1-160 [52] (a misidentification of H. parvulus)

 

Introduction

Kataev (2021) noted that the systematic position of this species has been changed repeatedly (see Generic Combinations), most recently with Larochelle & Larivière (2005) referring it back to the original placement in Harpalus. However Kataev (2021) believed that the re-description of H. australasiae by Larochelle & Larivière (2005), while correctly placing the species in Harpalus, was actually based on specimens of H. parvulus, a widely introduced species native to southern Africa. He suggested that the status of H. australasiae Dejean, 1829 required further study and that the only extant type, a female holotype, may originally have been a mislabelled specimen from Africa. Kataev (2021) further noted that some records of H. australasiae from Australia and New Zealand were referable to Hypharpax australis (Dejean, 1929) and some other species of Hypharpax and that a revision of that genus was also much needed.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Melbourne and King Is.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: granivore, omnivore, terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Kataev, B.M. 2021. On some Afrotropical Harpalus, with description of two new species, and remarks on Hypharpax australis (Coleoptera: Carabidae): misidentification, mislabeling, and introduction to the Australian region. Zootaxa 5020(1): 31-56 [45]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
21-Sep-2021	CARABIDAE Latreille, 1802	21-Sep-2021	MOVED
04-Aug-2021	CARABIDAE Latreille, 1802	21-Sep-2021	MODIFIED
13-Aug-2013		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)