Species Hypharpax australis (Dejean, 1829)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Harpalus australis 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] [385].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).
• Harpalus inornatus Germar, E.F. 1848. Beiträge zur Insektenfauna von Adelaide. Linnaea Entomologica 3: 153-247 [169].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, Adelaide, SA.
• Harpalus coxii 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)] [107].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Clarence River, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [484]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), 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), 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)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: granivore, omnivore, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Blackburn, T. [1887] 1888. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 177-287 [183] (taxonomy)

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 [49]

Moore, B.P. 1992. The Carabidae of Lord Howe Island (Coleoptera: Carabidae). pp. 159-173 in Noonan, G.R., Ball, G.E. & Stork, N.E. (eds). The Biogeography of Ground Beetles of Mountains and Islands. Andover, Hampshire, UK : Intercept 256 pp. [168] (Lord Howe Island record)

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