Species Perileptus (Pyrrotachys) sloanei Moore, 1966

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• Perileptus sloanei Moore, B.P. 1966. The genus Perileptus in Australia (Coleoptera, Trechinae). Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 9: 317-320 [319].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 1 ♂, Murrumbidgee River at junction with Cotter River, ACT.
  Paratype(s) TZM 2 specimens, Murrumbidgee River, ACT; SAMA 1 specimen, Murrumbidgee River, ACT; MCZ 1 specimen, Murrumbidgee River, ACT; PCBP 5 specimens, Murrumbidgee River, ACT.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), 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] [9] (redescription, distribution)

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