Species Mecyclothorax (Mecyclothorax) lateralis (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phorticosomus lateralis 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)] [92] [as Forticosomus].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Paroo River, QLD and NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) MCG.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1941. Sui tipi dei Pterostichini (Coleopt. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau nel Museo Civico di Genova Nota III. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 61: 83-94 [89].
• Cyclothorax cinctipennis Blackburn, T. 1889. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 1387-1506 [Date published 22 March 1889] [1391].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Torrens River, SA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1895. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. VII New genera and species of Carabidae (including some notes on previously described species, and synoptic lists of genera and species). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 9: 393-455 [448]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Type locality and Paroo River.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

Sloane, T.G. 1903. Studies in Australian Entomology. No XII New Carabidae (Panageini, Bembidiini, Pogonini, Platysmatini, Platynini, Lebiini, with revisional lists of genera and speecis [sic], some notes on synonymy, etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 566-642 [585] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
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19-Jul-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
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