• Microlestodes Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [28].

  Type species:

   Dromius humeralis Macleay, 1871 (=Microlestes macleayi Csiki, 1932) by original designation.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

History of changes

• Microlestodes (Microlestodes) arnhemensis Baehr, M. 2010. A new species of the genus Microlestodes from Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Lebiini). The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 26: 103-107.

History of changes

• Microlestes atrifasciatus Sloane, T.G. 1910. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVI New species of Carabidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 378-406 [404].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC (Sloane coll.), Kuranda, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC 2 specimens (Sloane coll.), Kuranda, QLD.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [46].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: litter, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [46] (redescription, distribution)

History of changes

• Dromius australiensis Sloane, T.G. 1900. Studies in Australian Entomology. No IX New species of Carabidae (with notes on some previously described species, and synoptic lists of species). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 24: 553-584 [583].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC (Sloane coll.), Mulwala, Junee and Grenfell, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC 4 specimens (Sloane coll.), Mulwala, Junee and Grenfell, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [33].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Augusta, Gunderoo, Fern Tree Gully, Kooyong, Hattah, Black Flat and type localities.

IBRA

NSW, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: litter, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [33] (redescription, distribution)

Sloane, T.G. 1910. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVI New species of Carabidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 378-406 [405] (taxonomy)

History of changes

• Microlestodes (Microlestodes) flavicornis Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Berry Springs, 30 km SSE of Darwin, NT.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: closed forest, litter, predator, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microlestodes (Microlestodes) ibiscae Baehr, M. 2009. A new species of the genus Microlestodes Baehr from South-east Queensland, Australia (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Mitteilungen der Münchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 99: 5-9 [6].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T156260 ♂, QLD, Lamington NP, IBISCA.
  Paratype(s) CBM ♀, same data as holotype.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, rainforest.

History of changes

• Microlestodes (Microlestodes) inoculatus Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [44].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Fitzroy Crossing, WA.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: litter, predator, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microlestes macleayi Csiki, E. 1932. Carabidae III: Harpalinae VII. pp. 1279-1598 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 3 Pars 124. [Date published 7/Nov/1932] [1427] [nom. nov. for Dromius humeralis Macleay, 1871].
• Dromius humeralis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [88] [junior homonym of Dromius humeralis Stephens, 1827].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K11496, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: litter, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [38] (redescription, distribution)

Sloane, T.G. 1910. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVI New species of Carabidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 378-406 [405] (taxonomy)

History of changes

• Eucalyptocola marcida Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182 [91].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Glenelg River, VIC.
  Syntype(s) BMNH, Glenelg River, VIC.

Generic Combinations

• Microlestodes (Microlestodes) marcidus (Blackburn, 1903).

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, predator, under bark, volant.

History of changes

• Microlestodes occidentalis Baehr, M. 1990. A new species of Microlestodes Baehr from Western Australia (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Spixiana (Munich) 13(2): 183-185 [Date published 31/Jul/1990] [183].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, mouth of Dawson's Creek, Millstream, WA [21°35'S 117°04'E].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: litter, predator, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microlestodes (Microlestodes) parallelus Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Pine Hill, 18 km NWbyN of Mt Ragged, WA [33°18'S 123°23'E].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Fremantle, Wilga, Bridgetown, 46 km ENE of Norseman and type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: litter, predator, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microlestodes (Microlestodes) pseudohumeralis Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [41].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂, TAS; exact locality unknown.

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: litter, predator, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Microlestodes (Microlestodes) rufoniger Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [43].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, 6 km SWbyS of Oenpelli, NT [12°22'S 133°01'E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: litter, predator, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Dromius yarrae Blackburn, T. 1892. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part XI. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7(I): 65-151 [71].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Upper Yarra, VIC.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: brachypterous, litter, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [31] (redescription, distribution)

Sloane, T.G. 1910. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVI New species of Carabidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 378-406 [405] (taxonomy)

History of changes

• Microlestodes (Microlestodes) zonatus Baehr, M. 1987. Revision of the Australian dromiine ground beetles, formerly placed in the genus Microlestes Schmidt-Göbel (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). Entomologischen Arbeiten aus dem Museum Georg Frey 35/36: 21-65 [Date published 15 Dec. 1987] [48].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Lilly Pilly Track, Wilsons Promontory National Park, VIC.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Mt Gingera, Gundaroo and type locality.

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 South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: litter, predator, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes