Subspecies Megacephala bostockii bostockii (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tetracha bostockii 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)] [36].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (ex Van de Poll coll.), Nickol Bay, WA; BMNH 2 ♂, Nickol Bay, WA.
• Tetracha excisilatera Sloane, T.G. 1897. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. VIII Descriptions of two new tiger beetles. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 22: 33-35 [34].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.), Barrow Creek, NT; ANIC(MMUS), Barrow Creek, NT.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1906. Revision of the Cicindelidae of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 31: 309-360 pls XXV-XXXI [324]

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), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nocturnal, predator, riparian, terrestrial.

Larva: burrower, predator.

History of changes