Species Notiobia (Anisotarsus) melanarius (Dejean, 1829)

Museums

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• Harpalus melanarius Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1829. Species général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. IV vii 520 pp. [Nov. 1829] [311].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).
• Ophonus billardieri Montrouzier, P. 1860. Essai sur la faune entomologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (Balade) et des îles des Pins, Art, Lifui etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 8: 233-308 [237].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHL, Île d'Art, New Caledonia.
• Selenophorus baladicus Fauvel, A. 1862. Coléoptères de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie 7: 120-185 (1861-1862) [181 pl. 9 fig. 8].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RIB, New Caledonia.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1932. Carabidae III: Harpalinae VI. pp. 1023-1278 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 3 Pars 121. [Date published 28/May/1932] [1045].
• Harpalus thouzeti 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)] [96].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Rockhampton and Port Denison, QLD.
• Harpalus wilcoxii 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)] [101].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Brisbane, QLD, Clarence River and Sydney, NSW.
• Gnathaphanus melanarius subtransversus Chaudoir, M. de 1878. Les Harpaliens d'Australie d'après la collection de M. le Compte de Castelnau et la mienne. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 12: 475–517 [505].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 6 specimens, southern Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chaudoir, M. de 1878. Les Harpaliens d'Australie d'après la collection de M. le Compte de Castelnau et la mienne. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 12: 475–517 [503]
• Fauvel, A. 1882. Les Coléoptères de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et déendances avec descriptions, notes et synonymes nouvelles. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 1: 265-274 [268]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Batemans Bay and type localities.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: granivore, omnivore, terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Moore, B.P. 1992. The Carabidae of Lord Howe Island (Coleoptera: Carabidae). pp. 159-173 in Noonan, G.R., Ball, G.E. & Stork, N.E. (eds). The Biogeography of Ground Beetles of Mountains and Islands. Andover, Hampshire, UK : Intercept 256 pp. [168] (Lord Howe Island records)

Noonan, G.R. 1976. Synopsis of the supra-specific taxa of the tribe Harpalini (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Quaestiones Entomologicae 13: 3-87 [10] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Apr-2019	CARABIDAE Latreille, 1802	06-Feb-2019	MODIFIED
13-Aug-2013		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		15-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)