Species Notonomus opacicollis (Chaudoir, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Feronia (Notonomus) opacicollis 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 [88].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 7 specimens, Australia.
• Orbitus purpuripennis 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 [248].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMM, Australia (as Nouv. Hollande).
• Feronia purpureolimbata 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)] [128].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Clarence River, 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 [254].
• Feronia impressipennis 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)] [128].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG ♂, Clarence River, 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 [255].
• Notonomus rugosicollis 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 [304].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.) ♂, Clarence River, NSW.

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 [585]
• Sloane, T.G. 1913. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part iv. The genus Notonomus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38: 404-449 [428]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, open forest, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

General References

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 [306] (taxonomy)

History of changes