Species Philophlaeus australis (Dejean, 1826)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cymindis australis Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1826. Spécies général des Coléoptères de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. II viii 501 pp. [449].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Port Jackson, NSW.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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 Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, on eucalypts, predator, under bark, volant.

General References

Chaudoir, M. de 1869. Mémoire sur les Coptodérides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 12: 163-256 [214] (taxonomy)

Moore, B.P. & Wallbank, B.E. 1968. Chemical composition of the defensive secretion in carabid beetles and its importance as a taxonomic character. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 37(5–6): 62-72 [66]

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