Species Notonomus molestus (Chaudoior, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Feronia (Notonomus) molesta 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 [89].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP ♂ ♀, Melbourne, VIC.
• Ternox obsoletus Motschulsky, V. 1865. Énumération des nouvelles espèces de Coléoptères rapportés de ses voyages. 4-ème article (Suite). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 38: 227-313 [268].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMM, Melbourne, VIC.
• Feronia lacustris 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)] [136].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Lake Alexandrina, SA.

  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 [254].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chaudoir, M. de 1874. Supplément à l'essai sur les Féronies de l'Australie publié dans le Bulletin des Naturalistes de Moscou en 1865 T. ii, p. 56, Accompangé d'observations sur la synonymie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 6: 569–601 [590]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), 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: flightless, open forest, open scrub, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Horne, P.A. 1990. Parental care in Notonomus Chaudoir (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichinae). Australian Entomological Magazine 17(2): 65-69 [Date published 28/Jun/1990] (biology, brood care)

Sloane, T.G. 1902. A revision of the genus Notonomus (Family Carabidae; sub-family Feronini). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27: 252-325 [320] (taxonomy)

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