Species Philoscaphus costalis Macleay, 1873

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• Philoscaphus costalis Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [324].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 3 specimens, Nicol Bay, WA; AM 1 specimen, Nicol Bay, WA.
• Philoscaphus lateralis Macleay, W.J. 1873. Miscellanea entomologica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 319-370 [324].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K12520 (not found in 1948), Wallaroo,SA [33° 56' S 137° 37' E].
• Philoscaphus crassus Blackburn, T. 1888. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 36-51 [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA, Australia.
• Philoscaphus tepperi Blackburn, T. 1888. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 36-51 [36].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 1 specimen located, Angebuckina, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1905. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 30: 103-135 [114]
• Bänninger, M. 1940. On Australian Pamborini, Ozaenini and Scaratini (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Novitates Zoologicae 42: 203-213 [213]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, low open woodland, low shrubland, nocturnal, open scrub, predator, sandy soil, terrestrial.

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