Species Mecyclothorax (Mecyclothorax) minutus (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phorticosomus minutus 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, NSW and QLD (label reads N.H. riv. Murray).

  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 fortis 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] [1390].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH, near Port Lincoln and Yorke Peninsula, SA; SAMA 2 specimens, near Port Lincoln and Yorke Peninsula, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Liebherr, J.K. 2018. Taxonomic review of Australian Mecyclothorax Sharp (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) with special emphasis on the M. lophoides (Chaudoir) species complex. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 65(2): 117–224 [211]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

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)

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