Species Mareeba storeyi Chandler, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mareeba storeyi Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [514].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂, 19 km NE Mareeba, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

Diagnosis

Length 1.7-1.9 mm. Head, pronotum, and legs coarsely microreticulate, elytra and abdomen glabrous; setae sparse over body, decumbent except on abdomen where suberect. Head with vertex broadly and shallowly impressed between eyes; with apical 4 antennomeres enlarged and globular, slightly laterally flattened; gula laterally angulate beneath eyes. Elytra with small tufts of setae on apical margins adjacent to sutural striae, discal striae strongly converging in apical fourth of elytra. Abdomen with visible tergite 1 (IV) deeply and smoothly impressed to base. Male eyes with about 25 facets; antennal clubs distinctly formed by apical four antennomeres; sternite VI longitudinally and shallowly sulcate. Female eyes with about 25 facets; antennomeres VIII smaller, antennal clubs less distinctly formed by apical four antennomeres.

 

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [514]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)