Species Nurus atlas (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Feronia atlas 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)] [117].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG (The name ‘Clarence River’ was used as a broad district name that included the Clarence River watershed and adjacent areas during the early days of settlement in the mid-1800s when the types were collected. The species does not occur in the Clarence River watershed but in a very restricted part of the Richmond River drainage a little further north (Will & Monteith 2018)), 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 [248].

  Type locality references:

  Will, K. & Monteith, G.B. 2018. Multi-locus phylogeny, taxonomic review and description of new species of Australian 'Nurus' (Sensu Stricto) Motschulsky, 1865 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini). Australian Entomologist 45(4): 353–388 [360].
• Feronia obesa 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)] [118].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG (The name ‘Clarence River’ was used as a broad district name that included the Clarence River watershed and adjacent areas during the early days of settlement in the mid-1800s when the types were collected. The species does not occur in the Clarence River watershed but in a very restricted part of the Richmond River drainage a little further north (Will & Monteith 2018)), 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 [248].
• Homalosoma crassiforme Sloane, T.G. 1900. Studies in Australian Entomology. No IX New species of Carabidae (with notes on some previously described species, and synoptic lists of species). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 24: 553-584 [570].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV (type locality 'spurious' (Will & Monteith 2018)), Cairns, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tschitschérine, T. 1902. Notes sur les Platysmatini de l'Australie. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 35: 502-534 [519]

 

Generic Combinations

• Nurus atlas (Castelnau, 1867). —
  Tschitschérine, T. 1902. Platysmatini (Coleoptera, Carabidae) nouveaux ou peu connus de l’Asie orientale. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 35: 494-501

 

Introduction

This species belongs to Nurus sensu stricto (Will & Monteith 2018)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

The entire distribution lies within a 10 km radius of the town of Alstonville in northern New South Wales (Charley & Andren 2018, Will & Monteith 2018)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: burrower, closed forest, flightless, predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

Will, K. & Monteith, G.B. 2018. Multi-locus phylogeny, taxonomic review and description of new species of Australian 'Nurus' (Sensu Stricto) Motschulsky, 1865 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini). Australian Entomologist 45(4): 353–388

 

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		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)