Species Perileptus (Pyrrotachys) constrictipes (Sloane, 1896)

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• Pyrrotachys constrictipes 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 [375].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂, Tamworth, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Moore, B.P. 1966. The genus Perileptus in Australia (Coleoptera, Trechinae). Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 9: 317-320 [317].
• Pyrrotachys constricticeps Sloane, T.G. 1903. Studies in Australian Entomology. No XII New Carabidae (Panageini, Bembidiini, Pogonini, Platysmatini, Platynini, Lebiini, with revisional lists of genera and speecis [sic], some notes on synonymy, etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 566-642 [583] [unjustified emendation of Pyrrotachys constrictipes Sloane, 1896].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: gravel beds, nocturnal, predator, riparian, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Baehr, M. 1987. The Australian species of the carabid genus Perileptus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 1(1): 1-16 [Date published 27 Feb. 1987] [5] (redescription, distribution)

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