Species Sarothrocrepis benefica (Newman, 1842)

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• Lebia benefica Newman, E. 1842. List of insects collected at Port Phillip, South Australia, by Edmund Thomas Higgins, Esq. The Entomologist 1(23): 361-369 [Date published Aug. 1842] [368].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHM-UK ♂, "Port Philip, SA" [erroneous for Port Philip, VIC].
  Syntype(s) BMNH, Port Phillip, VIC (as Port Philip, SA).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Baehr, M. 2018. The cyclosomine genus Sarothrocrepis Chaudoir (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cyclosomini). Spixiana (Munich) 41(2): 211-336 [268].
• Lebia duponti Putzeys, J. 1845. Prémices entomologiques. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège 2: 353-417 [393].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   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] [1303].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Blackburn, T. 1892. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part XI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7(I): 65-151 [72]

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 South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Tanami (TAN), 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), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, on eucalypts, predator, under bark, volant.

General References

Baehr, M. 2018. The cyclosomine genus Sarothrocrepis Chaudoir (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Cyclosomini). Spixiana (Munich) 41(2): 211-336 [268, Figs 62, 177, 229]

Chaudoir, M. de 1873. Essai monographique sur le genre Cymindis proprement dit. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 1873: 53-120 [54] (taxonomy)

History of changes