Genus Homethes Newman, 1842

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• Homethes Newman, E. 1842. List of insects collected at Port Phillip, New South Wales, by Edmund Thomas Higgins, Esq. (continued). The Entomologist 1(24): 401-405 [Date published Oct. 1842] [402] [subsequently misspelled as Homothes by Csiki, E. 1931. Carabidae II: Harpalinae V. pp. 739–1022 in Schenkling, S. (ed). Coelopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 115 [884]].

  Type species:

   Homethes elegans Newman, 1842 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1931. Carabidae II: Harpalinae V. pp. 739-1022 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coelopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 115. [Date published 12/Feb/1931].

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

CARABIDAE: Homothes emarginatus Chaudoir, 1872 [currently in Aeolodermus Andrewes, 1929 described as from "Victoria", is from the Malay peninsula to Sulawesi and the Philippines] — Darlington, P.J. Jr 1956. Australian carabid beetles III. Notes on the Agonini. Psyche (Cambridge) Camb. 63: 1-10 [6]

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, 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), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), 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)

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