Species Lecanomerus verticalis (Erichson, 1842)

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• Harpalus verticalis Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [126].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, TAS.
• Lecanomerus insidiosus Chaudoir, M. de 1850. Mémoire sur la famille des Carabiques. 2e partie. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 23(1): 3-85 and 349-460 [447].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 5 specimens, Swan River, Melbourne, Nouvelle Hollande [sic].
• Lecanomerus flavocinctus 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 [188].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH, Port Lincoln, SA; SAMA 3 specimens, Port Lincoln, SA.
• Lecanomerus occidentalis Sloane, T.G. 1898. On Carabidae from West Australia, sent by Mr. A.M. Lea (with descriptions of new genera and species, synoptic tables etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23: 444-520 [464].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA 2544, Swan River, Darling Range, Pinjarrah, Donnybrook, Mt Barker and Albany, WA.
  Paratype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 1 specimen; ANIC(MMUS) 4 specimens.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1911. Carabidae from Dorrigo, N.S.W. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 823-843 [835]
• 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

Extra Distribution Information

SW coastal, S Gulfs, Murray-Darling basin, WA, SA, VIC, ACT, NSW; also in New Zealand.

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: cave dweller, litter, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Sloane, T.G. 1920. The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 113-178 [137] (taxonomy)

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