Species Laccopterum cyaneum (Fabricius, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scarites cyaneus Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [95].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Australia (as Nova Hollandia).
• Carenum fabricii 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. [85] [unnecessary replacement name for Scarites cyaneus Fabricius, 1775].
• Laccoscaphus cyaneus aenescens Sloane, T.G. 1923. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVIII New genera and species of Carabidae. (Scaritini, Pterostichini, Merizodini, Bembidiini, Trechini, Odacanthini, Panagaeini, Licinini, and Lebiini). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 48: 17-39 [19].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.), Herberton, QLD.
  Paratype(s) BMNH.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Moore, B.P. 1987. Suborder Adephaga. pp. 17-366 in Houston, W.W.K. & Richardson, B.J.R. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 viii 444 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Herberton, Paluma, Mareeba and Station Creek.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, low open woodland, open scrub, predator, tall open shrubland, terrestrial.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Aug-2013		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)