Species Helluo costatus Bonelli, 1813

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• Helluo costatus Bonelli, F.A. 1813. Observations entomologiques. Part II. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Turin 1811-1812: 433–484 [455].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MSNT, Victoria?.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1932. Carabidae III: Harpalinae VII. pp. 1279-1598 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 3 Pars 124. [Date published 7/Nov/1932] [1582].
• Helluo carinatus Chaudoir, M. de 1848. Mémoire sur la famille des Carabiques. 1e Partie. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 21(1): 3-134 [70].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Melbourne, VIC (as Rivière des Cygnes, Melbourne).

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 [589]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Moore, B.P. & Wallbank, B.E. 1968. Chemical composition of the defensive secretion in carabid beetles and its importance as a taxonomic character. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 37(5–6): 62-72 [66]

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