Species Pericompsus (Upocompsus) australis (Schaum, 1863)

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• Tachys australis Schaum, H.R. 1863. Beiträge zur Kenntniss einiger Carabicinen-Gattungen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7: 67-92 [90].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, VIC.
• Tachys monochrous Schaum, H.R. 1863. Beiträge zur Kenntniss einiger Carabicinen-Gattungen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7: 67-92 [90] [nom. nud., for clarification see Darlington, P.J. Jr 1963. Australian carabid beetles XII. More Tachys. Psyche (Cambridge) 70: 22–33 [28]].

  Secondary source:

   Darlington, P.J. Jr 1963. Australian carabid beetles XII. More Tachys. Psyche (Cambridge) 70: 22-33.
• Bembidium rubicundum Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [118].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 4 specimens, Gayndah, QLD; AM K18150 1 specimen, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
• Tachys flindersi Blackburn, T. 1888. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 36-51 [41].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, near Port Lincoln and Adelaide, S.A.
• Bembidium tersatum Broun, T. 1893. Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Wellington : New Zealand Institute Part 5 - 7 xvii 975-1504 pp. [1010].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Mokohinou Is., New Zealand.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Darlington, P.J. Jr 1963. Australian carabid beetles XII. More Tachys. Psyche (Cambridge) 70: 22-33 [28]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Darlington, P.J. Jr 1963. Australian carabid beetles XII. More Tachys. Psyche (Cambridge) 70: 22-33 [28] (introduced to New Zealand by man)

Erwin, T.L. 1974. Studies of the subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini), Part II: A revision of the New World-Australian genus Pericompsus LeConte. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 162: 1–96 [14] (taxonomy)

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