Species Philophlaeus luculentus (Newman, 1842)

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• Lebia luculenta Newman, E. 1842. List of insects collected at Port Phillip, South Australia, by Edmund Thomas Higgins, Esq. The Entomologist 1(23): 361-369 [Date published Aug. 1842] [368].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Port Phillip, SA (in error for VIC).
• Philophlaeus luculentus guttifera Sloane, T.G. 1911. Carabidae from Dorrigo, N.S.W. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 823-843 [841] [as Philoploeus luculentus].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) not found, Dorrigo, NSW.

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: 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 [221] (taxonomy)

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