Species Pamborus alternans Latreille, 1812

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pamborus alternans Latreille, P.A. 1812. In, Encyclopédie Méthodique. Insectes Part 2. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 8 pp. 361-722. [678].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Sydney (as Port Jackson), NSW.
• Pamborus cunninghamii Castelnau, F.L. Laporte de 1834. Études Entomologiques, ou Description d'Insectes Nouveaux et Observations sur leur Synonomie. Paris : Méquinon-Marvis 1-94 pp., pl 1-2. [70].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Pamborus morbillosus Boisduval, J.A. 1835. Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont d'Urville. Faune Entomologique de l'Océan Pacifique, avec l'illustration des insectes nouveaux recueillis pendant le voyage. 2me Partie. Coléoptères et autres Ordres. Paris : J. Tastu vii 716 pp. [Date published 27-III-1835] [27].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
• Pamborus elongatus Gory, H.L. 1836. Monographie du genre Pambore. Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 5: nos 166-167 pls 2 [division 9 pl. 166 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1927. Carabidae: Carabinae I. pp. 1-313 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coelopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 1 Pars 91. [Date published 15/Oct/1927] [340].
• Pamborus viridiaureus Macleay, W.J. 1883. Notices of some undescribed species of Coleoptera in the Brisbane Museum. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 8: 409-416 [409].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) QM, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Csiki, E. 1927. Carabidae: Carabinae II. pp. 315-622 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 1 Pars 92. [Date published 22/Dec/1927] [340]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mollusc feeder, nocturnal, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

General References

Moore, B.P. & Wallbank, B.E. 1968. Chemical composition of the defensive secretion in carabid beetles and its importance as a taxonomic character. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 37(5–6): 62-72 [64]

Takami, Y. & Weir, T.A. 2009. The genus Pamborus Latreille (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in the Sloane Collection and its importance for current taxonomy. Australian Entomologist 36(1): 13-20

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