Genus Hyperion Castelnau, 1834

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• Hyperion Castelnau, F.L. Laporte de 1834. Études Entomologiques, ou Description d'Insectes Nouveaux et Observations sur leur Synonomie. Paris : Méquinon-Marvis 1-94 pp., pl 1-2. [73].

  Type species:

   Scarites schroetteri Schreibers, 1802 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Moore, B.P. 1965. Studies on Australian Carabidae (Coleoptera). 4. The Pterostichinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 117: 1-32 [6].
• Heteroscelis Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu vii 716 pp. [Date published 27-III-1835] [25] [junior primary homonym of Heteroscelis Latreille, 1829].

  Type species:

   Scarites schroetteri Schreibers, 1802 by monotypy.
• Campylocnemis Westwood, J.O. 1842. On the Scaritideous beetles of New Holland. 81-90 pl. 24 in Westwood, J.O. (ed.). Arcana Entomologica or illustrations of new rare and interesting insects. London : Smith Vol. 1 iv 192 pp. 48 pls. [89] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Hyperion Castelnau, 1834].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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)]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

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