Species Notonomus australis (Castelnau, 1840)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trigonotoma australis Castelnau, F.L. Laporte de 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, Animaux articulés. Coléoptères. Paris : Duménil Vol. 1 cxxv 24 pp. [120].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not found in MCG in 1936 by Straneo), Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).
• Feronia (Notonomus) aeneomicans Chaudoir, M. de 1865. Essai sur les Féronides de l'Australie et de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 38(3-4): 65-112 [84].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP ♂ ♀, central Australia; type locality incorrect, known only from SE coastal NSW.

  Type locality references:

  Moore, B.P. 1987. Suborder Adephaga. pp. 17-366 in Houston, W.W.K. & Richardson, B.J.R. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 viii 444 pp.
• Feronia lapeyrousii 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)] [127].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Ash Is., NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1936. Sui tipi dei Platysmatini (Coleopt. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau, nel Museo Civico di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 59: 246-259 [251].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Csiki, E. 1930. Carabidae II: Harpalinae IV. pp. 529-738 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 112. [Date published 3/Jun/1930] [549]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Ash Is. and Barrington Tops.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

 

General References

Sloane, T.G. 1907. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XV New genera and species of Carabidae, with some notes of synonymy (Clivinini, Scaritini, Cuneipectini, Trigonotomini and Lebiini). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 346-381 [367] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

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