Species Melisodera picipennis Westwood, 1835

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• Melisodera picipennis Westwood, J.O. 1835. De genere Ozaena et affinitatibus suis. Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 5: No. 132 [No. 132].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1929. Carabidae II: Harpalinae III. pp. 347-528 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 1 Pars 104. [Date published 20/Mar/1929] [485].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

General References

Baehr, M. 2011. New species of the genera Melisodera Westwood, Rhaebolestes Sloane and Moriodema Castlenau from Australia (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Psydrini). Australian Entomologist 38(3): 129-144 [130]

Moore, B.P. 1964. Australian larval Carabidae of the subfamilies Broscinae, Psydrinae and Pseudomorphinae (Coleoptera). Pacific Insects 6: 242-246 (larvae)

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