Genus Pheropsophus Solier, 1833

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pheropsophus Solier, A.J.J. 1833. Observations sur les deux genres Brachinus et Aptinus, du spécies de M. le Compte Dejean; et description d'une nouvelle espèces de Gyrinus. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 2: 459-463 [461].

  Type species:

   Carabus complanatus Fabricius, 1775 by subsequent designation, see Hope, F.W. 1838. The Coleopterist's Manual, containing the predaceous and water beetles of Linneus and Fabricius. London : Henry G. Bohn Vol. 2 xvi 168 pp. 4 pls. [99].
• Stenaptinus Maindron, M. 1906. Description d'une nouvelle espèce de Pheropsophus et remarques sur ce genre (Col.). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1906: 15 [15].

  Type species:

   Stenaptinus krichna Maindron, 1914 by subsequent designation, see Jeannel, R. 1949. Coléoptères Carabiques de la region Malagache, Part 3. Faune de l'Empire Français 11: 767-1146 [1084].
• Parapheropsophus Hubenthal, W. 1914. Vier neue Arten der Carabiden-Gattung Pheropsophus Solier, nebst Bemerkungen zu bekannten Arten. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1914: 437-448 [442] [originally proposed with subgeneric rank in Pheropsophus Solier, 1833].

  Type species:

   Brachinus verticalis Dejean, 1825 by subsequent designation, see Jeannel, R. 1949. Coléoptères Carabiques de la region Malagache, Part 3. Faune de l'Empire Français 11: 767-1146 [1084].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Moore, B.P. 1987. Suborder Adephaga. pp. 17-366 in Houston, W.W.K. & Richardson, B.J.R. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 viii 444 pp.

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical areas.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), 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), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), 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), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), 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)

General References

Baehr, M. 2012. A new species of the genus Pheropsophus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae) from northern Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27: 62-67 (key and synopsis of species)

Giachino, P.M. 2003. The genus Pheropsophus Solier, 1833 in Australia (Coleoptera, Carabidae). pp. 29-64 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp. (review of species, key to Australian species)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Aug-2013		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)