Species Helluodema unicolor (Hope, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aenigma unicolor Hope, F.W. 1842. Observations on the Coleoptera of Port Essington, in Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1 9: 423-430 [Date published 1 Jul. 1842] [426].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM, Australia (as New Holland).
• Helluomorpha batesii Thomson, J. 1857. Description de quartorze espèces nouvelles. Archives Entomologiques 1: 129-136 [134].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, 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 [882].
• Simoglossus niger Chaudoir, M. de 1872. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Carabiques de la tribu des Troncatipennes. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. Paris 2 23: 101-107, 138-143, 168-172, 212-221, 241-250 [217].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia.

  Type locality 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 [884].
• Gigadema castelnaui Chaudoir, M. de 1872. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Carabiques de la tribu des Troncatipennes. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. Paris 2 23: 101-107, 138-143, 168-172, 212-221, 241-250 [216].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia.

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 [586]
• 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] [1581]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes