Species Pictacara crassa (Blackburn, 1892)

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• Macrohelodes crassus Blackburn, T. 1892. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7(2): 283-300 [Date published 22 Nov. 1892] [298] [in part].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH, Blue Mtns, NSW; NMV T515-517 3 (labelled paratype), no data.
• Macrohelodes intricatus Blackburn, T. 1892. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7(2): 283-300 [Date published 22 Nov. 1892] [299].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Blue Mtns, NSW.
• Macrohelodes vittatus Carter, H.J. 1935. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. IX. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 179-193 [189].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM K204441 (1925), Bulli, NSW [34° 19' 54" S 150° 55' 4" E].
• Macrohelodes crassus var. intricatus Blackburn, T. 1892. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7(2): 283-300 [Date published 22 Nov. 1892].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Watts, C.H.S. 2010. Revision of the genus Macrohelodes (Scirtidae: Coleoptera; Insecta). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 134(1): 19-52 [23]

Generic Combinations

• Pictacara crassa (Blackburn, 1892). —
  Watts, C.H.S., Bradford, T.M., Cooper, S.J.B. & Libonatti, M.L. 2020. New genera, species and combinations in the Pseudomicrocara Armstrong group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology supported by mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data. Zootaxa 4831(1): 1-66 [35] (changed combination as type species of Pictacara)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: King (KIN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

General References

Lea, A.M. 1919. Notes on some miscellaneous Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part V. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 43: 166-261, pls XXV-XXVII [Date published 24 Dec. 1919] (recognised Macrohelodes crassus var. intricatus, Macrohelodes crassus var. niger and Macrohelodes crassus var. tasmanicus)

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