Species Pheropsophus verticalis (Dejean, 1825)

Museums

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• Brachinus verticalis Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1825. Species général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. I xxx 463 pp. [302].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).
• Pheropsophus australis Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [23].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, Rockhampton, QLD.
• Pheropsophus hypoxanthus Chaudoir, M. de 1876. Monographie des Brachynides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 19: 11-104 [33].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1933. Carabidae III: Harpalinae VIII. pp. 1599-1933 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 3 Pars 126. [Date published 26/May/1933] [1604].
• Pheropsophus papuensis Macleay, W.J. 1877. The Coleoptera of the Chevert expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 164-168 [166].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MMUS, Katow, Papua.
• Pheropsophus baliothorax Heller, K.M.J. 1910. Fünfter Beitrag zur Papuanischen Käferfauna hauptsächlich auf Grund der Ausbeute von Dr. Schlaginhaufen. Quaestiones Entomologicae 13(3): 1-42 1 pl. [6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MTKD, Finschhafen, New Guinea.

  Secondary source:

   Darlington, P.J. Jr 1968. The carabid beetles of New Guinea Part III. Harpalinae (continued): Perigonini to Pseudomorphini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 137: 1-253 [236].
• Pheropsophus (Parapheropsophus) intermedius Hubenthal, W. 1914. Vier neue Arten der Carabiden-Gattung Pheropsophus Solier, nebst Bemerkungen zu bekannten Arten. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1914: 437-448 [440].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, New Britain.

  Secondary source:

   Darlington, P.J. Jr 1968. The carabid beetles of New Guinea Part III. Harpalinae (continued): Perigonini to Pseudomorphini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 137: 1-253 [236].
• Pheropsophus (Parapheropsophus) niger Hubenthal, W. 1914. Vier neue Arten der Carabiden-Gattung Pheropsophus Solier, nebst Bemerkungen zu bekannten Arten. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1914: 437-448 [442].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, New Guinea.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1933. Carabidae III: Harpalinae VIII. pp. 1599-1933 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 3 Pars 126. [Date published 26/May/1933] [1604].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Csiki, E. 1933. Carabidae III: Harpalinae VIII. pp. 1599-1933 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 3 Pars 126. [Date published 26/May/1933] [1604]
• Darlington, P.J. Jr 1968. The carabid beetles of New Guinea Part III. Harpalinae (continued): Perigonini to Pseudomorphini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 137: 1-253 [236]

Distribution

States

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

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, riparian, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

'near the shore of sandy rivers' (Giachino 2003), quoting Baehr, M.

General References

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. [31] (review, redescription, new records)

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