Species Pamborus viridis Gory, 1836

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pamborus viridis Gory, H.L. 1836. Monographie du genre Pambore. Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 5: nos 166-167 pls 2 [division 9 pl. 166 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MNHP ♂ (Labelled: ‘415’, ‘Australia’, ‘Pamborus Viridis’, ‘Pamborus viridis’,), Nouvelle-Hollande [=Australia].
  Syntype(s) MNHP, N Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Takami, Y. & Sota, T. 2006. Four new species of the Australina Pamborus Latreille (Coleoptera, Carabidae) carabid beetles. Australian Journal of Entomology 45: 44-54 [46].

  Secondary source:

   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] [341].

Distribution

States

New South Wales

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: low open woodland, 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]

History of changes