Species Platycoelus melliei (Montrouzier, 1860)

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• Feronia melliei Montrouzier, P. 1860. Essai sur la faune entomologique de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (Balade) et des îles des Pins, Art, Lifui etc. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 8: 233-308 [238].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Balade, New Caledonia.
• Feronia (Chlaenioidius) herbacea Chaudoir, M. de 1865. Essai sur les Féronides de l'Australie et de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 38(3-4): 65-112 [112].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀, northern Australia.
• Feronia resplendens Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [131] [junior homonym of Feronia resplendens Castelnau, 1869 p. 127].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG ♂, Merimbula, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) MCG ♂ ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1936. Sui tipi dei Platysmatini (Coleopt. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau, nel Museo Civico di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 59: 246-259 [257]; Straneo, S.L. 1937. Sui tipi dei Platysmatini (Coleop. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau, nel Museo Civico di Genova. II. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 59: 461-475 [465].
• Poecilus chlaenioides Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of King's Sound and its vicinity. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 443-480 [476].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, King Sound, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chaudoir, M. de 1874. Supplément à l'essai sur les Féronies de l'Australie publié dans le Bulletin des Naturalistes de Moscou en 1865 T. ii, p. 56, Accompangé d'observations sur la synonymie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 6: 569–601 [600]
• Sloane, T.G. 1903. Studies in Australian Entomology. No XII New Carabidae (Panageini, Bembidiini, Pogonini, Platysmatini, Platynini, Lebiini, with revisional lists of genera and speecis [sic], some notes on synonymy, etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 566-642 [625]
• Sloane, T.G. 1920. A list of the species of Australian Carabidae which range beyond Australia and its dependent islands. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 320–323 [322]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Dampierland (DL), 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), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Darlington, P.J. Jr 1962. The carabid beetles of New Guinea Part I. Cicindelinae, Carabinae, Harpalinae through Pterostichini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 126: 321-564 pls 4 [541] (taxonomy)

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