Species Megacephala crucigera Macleay, 1863

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• Megacephala (Tetracha) crucigera Macleay, W.J. 1863. Descriptions of twenty new species of Australian Coleoptera, belonging to the families Cicindelidae and Cetoniidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 9-21 [10].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Port Denison and Rockhampton, QLD; AM 2 specimens, Port Denison and Rockhampton, QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, riparian, terrestrial.

Larva: burrower, predator.

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