Species Pericompsus (Upocompsus) olliffi (Sloane, 1896)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tachys olliffi Sloane, T.G. 1896. On the Australian Bembidiides referable to the genus Tachys, with the description of a new allied genus Pyrrotachys. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21: 355-377 [376].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 1 specimen, Forest Reefs, NSW; SAMA 4 specimens, Forest Reefs, NSW.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

General References

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 [15] (taxonomy)

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