Species Meonis (Meonis) niger Castelnau, 1867

Museums

Regional Maps

• Meonis niger 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)] [70].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Clarence River, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1941. Sui tipi dei Pterostichini (Coleopt. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau nel Museo Civico di Genova Nota III. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 61: 83-94 [86].

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

General References

Baehr, M. 2007. Revision of the Australian genus Meonis Castelnau, 1867 (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Psydrinae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 99: 563-662 [577] (revision, new record)

History of changes