Species Megacephala intermedia Sloane, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Megacephala intermedia 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 [323 pl. XXIX fig. 55].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.), King Sound, WA; ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, King Sound, WA.
• Megacephala sloanei Horn, W. 1921. Cicindelinen-Studien aus dem Schwedischen Reichsmuseum nebst einigen Bemerkungen neuer Arten, etc. 1. Mjöbergs Cicindelinen- Ausbeute aus Australien 1910–1913. Arkiv för Zoologi 13(11): 1–7 [1920 in ABRS catalogue] [2].

  Type data:

   Holotype DEIB ♀, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Horn, W. 1926. Carabidae: Cicindelinae. pp. 1-345 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 1 Pars 86. [Date published 10/May/1926] [71]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nocturnal, predator, riparian, terrestrial.

Larva: burrower, predator.

History of changes