Species Microlestodes (Microlestodes) australiensis (Sloane, 1900)
- 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)
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