Species Meithton anzses Chandler, 2001

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• Meithton anzses Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [126].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♂, Mossman Bluff Track, 5-10 km W Mossman, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

Diagnosis

Length 1.0 mm. Body densely setose, setae very short and appressed. Antennal clubs formed by apical two antennomeres.
Male eyes formed by about 35 facets; meso- and metatibiae swollen to middles, trochanters and tibial apices not modified; visible sternite 6 (VIII) depressed medially. Females unknown. Holotype male: [Northern] Queensland, Mossman Bluff Track, 5-10 km W Mossman, 250 m, XII-20-1989/I-15-1990, Monteith, Thompson, and ANZSES, site 1, intercept (QMBA). Paratype: 1%, same data except, 760 m, site 5 (DSC).

 

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [126]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)