Species Morion orientalis Dejean, 1825

Museums

Regional Maps

• Morio orientalis Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1825. Species général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. I xxx 463 pp. [432].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Java.
• Morio walkeri Putzeys, M.J. 1873. Notes sur les genres Morio et Perigona. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 4: 216-225 [216].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG 2, Noura Ellia Mtns, Sri Lanka (as Ceylan).
• Morio subconvexus Chaudoir, M. de 1880. Essai monographie sur les Morionides. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 55(2): 317-384 [340].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Locality unknown.
• Morio submarginatus Chaudoir, M. de 1880. Essai monographie sur les Morionides. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 55(2): 317-384 [342].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, ?Borneo.
• Morio cucujoides Chaudoir, M. de 1880. Essai monographie sur les Morionides. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 55(2): 317-384 [342] [junior homonym of Morio cucujoides Walker, 1858].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 2, Ceylon.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Andrewes, H.E. 1924. Papers on Oriental Carabidae.–XIV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 14(84): 585-593 [591]
• 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] [482] (synonymizes Morio walkeri Putzeys, 1873)

Distribution

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, rotting wood, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Gahan, C.J. in Waterhouse, C.O., Gahan, C.J. & Arrow, G.J. 1900. Order 4.-Coleoptera. New species descriptions. pp. 89-127 in Andrews, C.W. (ed.). A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean): physical features and geology; with descriptions of the fauna and flora by numerous contributors. London : British Museum (Natural History) xiii 337 pp. [89] (distribution)

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