Species Philoscaphus mastersii Macleay, 1871

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• Philoscaphus mastersii Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [96].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Gayndah, QLD; AM K12519 2 specimens, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
• Philoscaphus duboulayi Blackburn, T. 1890. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part VIII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 5: 553-592 [Date published Dec. 16, 1890] [554].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bänninger, M. 1940. On Australian Pamborini, Ozaenini and Scaratini (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Novitates Zoologicae 42: 203-213 [213]

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

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

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