• Platynii Bonelli, F.A. 1810. Observations Entomologique. Première partie (cicindélètes et portion des carabiques) [with the “Tabula synoptica exhibens genera carabicorum in sectiones et stirpes disposita”]. Torino/Turin (Italy) : F. Galletti 58 pp., 1 table. [reissued in 1812, without the «Tabula Synoptica», in Mem. R. Accad. Sci. Torino 18: 21–78] [Tabula Synoptica].

  Type genus:

   Platynus Bonelli, 1810.

History of changes

• Colpodes Macleay, W.S. 1825. Annulosa Javanica, or an attempt to illustrate the natural affinities and analogies of the insects collected in Java by Thomas Horsfield, M.D. F.L. & G.S. and deposited by him in the Museum of the Honourable East-India Company. London : Kingsbury, Parbury & Allen 52 pp. 1 pl. [17] [proposed with subgeneric rank in Rembus].

  Type species:

   Rembus (Colpodes) brunneus Macleay, 1825 by monotypy.
• Dyscolus Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1831. Spécies général des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. V viii 883 pp. [437].

  Type species (included species):

   Dyscolus memnonius Dejean, 1831; Dyscolus brunneus Dejean, 1831; Dyscolus aeneipennis Dejean, 1831

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chaudoir, M. de 1859. Monographie du genre Colpodes Macleay. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 7: 287-364 [289]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical and subtropical and the Pacific islands.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

History of changes

• Dyscolus hilaris Olliff, A.S. 1889. The insect fauna of Lord Howe Island. Memoirs of the Australian Museum ii(4): 75-98 pl vi [80] [this is not a true Colpodes and needs to be moved to another genus; Moore, B.P. 1985. The Carabidae of Norfolk Island. pp. 237–256 in Ball, G.E. (ed). Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Zoogeography of Beetles and Ants. A Volume Dedicated to the Memory of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr 1904–1983 (Series Entomologia 33). Dordrecht : W. Junk [249] (248)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM, Lord Howe Island.

  Secondary source:

   Moore, B.P. 1985. The Carabidae of Norfolk Island. pp. 237-256 in Ball, G.E. (ed.). Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Zoogeography of Beetles and Ants. A Volume Dedicated to the Memory of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr 1904–1983 (Series Entomologia 33). Dordrecht : Dr W. Junk.

Generic Combinations

• Notoplatynus hilaris (Oliff, 1899). —
  Moore, B.P. 1992. The Carabidae of Lord Howe Island (Coleoptera: Carabidae). pp. 159-173 in Noonan, G.R., Ball, G.E. & Stork, N.E. (eds). The Biogeography of Ground Beetles of Mountains and Islands. Andover, Hampshire, UK : Intercept 256 pp. [167]
• Colpodes hilaris (Olliff, 1889).

Distribution

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: apterous, predator.

General References

Csiki, E. 1931. Carabidae II: Harpalinae V. pp. 739-1022 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coelopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 115. [Date published 12/Feb/1931] [754] (taxonomy)

Moore, B.P. 1992. The Carabidae of Lord Howe Island (Coleoptera: Carabidae). pp. 159-173 in Noonan, G.R., Ball, G.E. & Stork, N.E. (eds). The Biogeography of Ground Beetles of Mountains and Islands. Andover, Hampshire, UK : Intercept 256 pp. [167] (Lord Howe Island records, in Notoplatynus)

History of changes

• Colpodes truncatellus Fairmaire, L. 1881. Diagnoses de Coléoptères de la Mélanésie. Le Naturaliste 1: 348-349, 372-373, 381-382, 389, 406-407 [348].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH (Godeffroy coll.) (destroyed by fire in World War II), Îles Viti, Fiji.

  Secondary source:

   Fairmaire, L. 1881. Essai sur les Coléoptères des îles Viti (Fidgi). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 6 1: 242–318 [247].
• Colpodes habilis Sloane, T.G. 1907. New Carabidae from German New Guinea and its dependencies. (Col.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1907: 177-185 [178].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) DEIB, Sattelberg, New Guinea (as Kaiser Wilhelm Land).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Moore, B.P. 1987. Suborder Adephaga. pp. 17-366 in Houston, W.W.K. & Richardson, B.J.R. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 4 viii 444 pp.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Atherton, Bulburin State Forest and Cairns.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

History of changes

• Dicranoncus Chaudoir, M. de 1850. Mémoire sur la famille des Carabiques. 2e partie. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 23(1): 3-85 and 349-460 [392].

  Type species:

   Dicranoncus femoralis Chaudoir, 1850 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Pacific islands.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Platynus queenslandicus 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 [633].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) ♀ 1 elytron only, Mackay, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Ron Range and Windsor Tableland, Ceylon.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: closed forest, predator, tall grass, volant.

General References

Sloane, T.G. 1910. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part iii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 435-458 [456] (taxonomy)

History of changes

• Euplynes Schmidt-Goebel, H.M. 1846. Faunula Coleopterorum Birmaniae, adjectis nonullis Bengaliae indiginis Med. Dr. Johann Wilhelm Halfer´s hinterlassene Sammlungen aus Vorder- und Hinter-Indien. Nach seinem Tode in Aufrage des böhm. National-Museums unter Mitwirkung Mehrerer. Prague : G. Haase Söhne 94 pp. 3 pls. [52].

  Type species:

   Euplynes cyanipennis Schmidt-Goebel, 1846 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Euplynes decoloratus Baehr, M. 2000. Some genera and species of ground beetles new to Australia (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 46(1): 9-14 [Date published 31 Dec. 2000] [9].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T93014 ♂, West Claudie River, Iron Range, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Iron Range region.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: closed forest, logs, predator, terrestrial, tree trunks.

History of changes

• Laemostenus Bonelli, F.A. 1812. Observations Entomologique. Première partie (cicindélètes et portion des carabiques). Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences, Turin XVIII: 21-78, + Tabula Synoptica [reprinted version from Bonelli 1810, but without the “Tabula synoptica exhibens genera carabicorum in sectiones et stirpes disposita”] [Tabula Synoptica] [subsequently spelled as Laemosthenus ].

  Type species:

   Carabus venustus Dejean, 1828 by subsequent designation, see Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1828. Spécies général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. III vii 556 pp. [60].

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1931. Carabidae II: Harpalinae V. pp. 739-1022 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coelopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 115. [Date published 12/Feb/1931] [799].
• Pristonychus Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1828. Spécies général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. III vii 556 pp. [43] [subsequently misspelled as Prystonychus ].

  Type species:

   Carabus tericola Herbst, 1783 by subsequent designation, see Jeannel, R. 1937. Notes sur les Carabiques. Revue Française d'Entomologie 4: 1–23, 73–100 [96].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1828. Spécies général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. III vii 556 pp. [43]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Pristonychus complanatus Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1828. Spécies général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. III vii 556 pp. [58].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Portugal, Spain, southern France, Italy, Sicily, Egypt and (as côte de Barbarie) Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.

  Secondary source:

   Csiki, E. 1931. Carabidae II: Harpalinae V. pp. 739-1022 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coelopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 115. [Date published 12/Feb/1931] [806].
• Pristonychus australis Blackburn, T. 1888. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 805-875 [811].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH, Port Lincoln, Wallaroo and near Roseworthy, SA; SAMA 2 specimens, Port Lincoln, Wallaroo and near Roseworthy, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [631]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA

SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: peridomestic, predator, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: predator.

General References

Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1828. Spécies général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. III vii 556 pp. [43] (taxonomy)

Hinton, H.E. 1945. A Monograph of the Beetles Associated with Stored Products. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 1 viii 443 pp. [27] (redescription and habits)

History of changes

• Lorostema Motschulsky, V. 1864. Énumération des nouvelles espèces de Coléoptères rapportés de ses voyages. 4-ème article (Suite). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 37: 297-355 [329] [invalid emendation to Lorastemma by Gemminger, M. & Harold, E. von 1868. Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus autoribus. Cicindelidae, Carabidae. Monachii : E.H. Gummi Vol. 1 1 xxxvi 424 pp. [212]].

  Type species:

   Lorostema alutacea Motschulsky, 1864 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Gemminger, M. & Harold, E. von 1868. Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus autoribus. Cicindelidae, Carabidae. Monachii : E.H. Gummi Vol. 1 xxxvi 424 pp.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Pacific Islands.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Anchomenus (Agonum) bothriophora Redtenbacher, L. 1867. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Coleoptera. Wien : Karl Gerold's Sohn Vol. 2(1) iv 249 pp. 5 pls. [19].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW, Tahiti.
• Platynus cooki Sloane, T.G. 1895. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. VII New genera and species of Carabidae (including some notes on previously described species, and synoptic lists of genera and species). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 9: 393-455 [450].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC (Sloane coll.), Kings Plains Station, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Britton, E.B. 1938. Carabidae of the Society Islands and Rapa (Coleoptera). Occasional Papers of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 14: 103-110 [108]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cairns and Julatten, also in the Pacific Islands.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, volant.

General References

Darlington, P.J. Jr 1956. Australian carabid beetles III. Notes on the Agonini. Psyche (Cambridge) Camb. 63: 1-10 [5] (taxonomy)

History of changes

• Notagonum Darlington, P.J. Jr 1952. The carabid beetles of New Guinea. Part 2. The Agonini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 107: 89-252 pls 1-4 [127].

  Type species:

   Notagonum externum Darlington, 1952 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Darlington, P.J. Jr 1952. The carabid beetles of New Guinea. Part 2. The Agonini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 107: 89-252 pls 1-4 [147]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

History of changes

• Notagonum dentellum dentellum Darlington, P.J. Jr 1952. The carabid beetles of New Guinea. Part 2. The Agonini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 107: 89-252 pls 1-4 [147].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 28610 ♂, Dobodura, Papua.
  Paratype(s) MCZ 11 specimens.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Baringa, Iron Range and Lockerbie, also in New Guinea.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, predator, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Anchomenus lafertei 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) MNHP, Île d'Art, New Caledonia.
• Platynus planipennis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [112].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Gayndah, QLD; AM K205656 (posibly also AM K205655), Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Csiki, E. 1931. Carabidae II: Harpalinae V. pp. 739-1022 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coelopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 115. [Date published 12/Feb/1931] [756]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Kiama, Sydney, Mt Tamborine, Mt Spec and Cairns.

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Darlington, P.J. Jr 1956. Australian carabid beetles III. Notes on the Agonini. Psyche (Cambridge) Camb. 63: 1-10 [6] (taxonomy)

History of changes

• Platynus macleayi Sloane, T.G. 1910. Revisional notes on Australian Carabidae. Part iii. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 435-458 [454].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 1 elytron, Kuranda, QLD.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Darlington, P.J. Jr 1963. Australian carabid beetles XIII. Further notes on Agonini, and a genus of Licinini new to Australia. Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 183: 1-10 [3]

History of changes

• Anchomenus marginellus Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [130].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, TAS.
• Anchomenus nigroaeneus Newman, E. 1842. List of insects collected at Port Phillip, New South Wales, by Edmund Thomas Higgins, Esq. (continued). The Entomologist 1(24): 401-405 [Date published Oct. 1842] [402].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, Port Phillip, VIC (as NSW).
• Loxocrepis lugubris Motschulsky, V. 1864. Énumération des nouvelles espèces de Coléoptères rapportés de ses voyages. 4-ème article (Suite). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 37: 297-355 [309].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMM, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [632]
• Csiki, E. 1931. Carabidae II: Harpalinae V. pp. 739-1022 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coelopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 115. [Date published 12/Feb/1931] [864]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA

SA, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Darlington, P.J. Jr 1956. Australian carabid beetles III. Notes on the Agonini. Psyche (Cambridge) Camb. 63: 1-10 [8] (taxonomy)

Moore, B.P. 1992. The Carabidae of Lord Howe Island (Coleoptera: Carabidae). pp. 159-173 in Noonan, G.R., Ball, G.E. & Stork, N.E. (eds). The Biogeography of Ground Beetles of Mountains and Islands. Andover, Hampshire, UK : Intercept 256 pp. [167] (Lord Howe Island records)

History of changes

• Platynus murrayensis Blackburn, T. 1890. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 4: 707-746 [741].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH, Murray Bridge, SA; SAMA 1 specimen, Murray Bridge, SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, predator, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Notagonum nigrellum Darlington, P.J. Jr 1956. Australian carabid beetles III. Notes on the Agonini. Psyche (Cambridge) Camb. 63: 1-10 [7].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 29461, Mt Kosciusko, (5–7000 ft), NSW.
  Paratype(s) MCZ 22 specimens.

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Dead Horse Gap and type locality.

IBRA

NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, predator, terrestrial, volant.

History of changes

• Colpodes submetallicum White, A. 1846. Insects. 1-24 pls I-X in Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (eds). The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839–43. London : E.W. Janson Vol. 2 139 pp. [2].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH, New Zealand.

  Secondary source:

   Broun, T. 1880. Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Wellington : Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department Part 1 651 pp. [16].
• Platynus marginicollis Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [112].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K205657 2 specimens (posibly also AM K205655), Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), 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), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Darlington, P.J. Jr 1956. Australian carabid beetles III. Notes on the Agonini. Psyche (Cambridge) Camb. 63: 1-10 [6] (taxonomy)

Moore, B.P. 1979. Chemical defense in Carabids and its bearing on phylogeny. pp. 193-203 in Erwin, T.L., Ball, G.E., Whitehead, D.R. & Halpern, A.L. (eds). Carabid beetles: Their evolution, natural history, and classification. The Hague : W. Junk vii 635 pp. [201]

History of changes

• Notoplatynus Moore, B.P. 1985. The Carabidae of Norfolk Island. pp. 237-256 in Ball, G.E. (ed.). Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Zoogeography of Beetles and Ants. A Volume Dedicated to the Memory of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr 1904–1983 (Series Entomologia 33). Dordrecht : Dr W. Junk. [247].

  Type species:

   Notoplatynus darlingtoni Moore, 1985 by monotypy.

Distribution

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

History of changes

• Notoplatynus darlingtoni Moore, B.P. 1985. The Carabidae of Norfolk Island. pp. 237-256 in Ball, G.E. (ed.). Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Zoogeography of Beetles and Ants. A Volume Dedicated to the Memory of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr 1904–1983 (Series Entomologia 33). Dordrecht : Dr W. Junk. [248].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Norfolk Is.
  Paratype(s) NZAC; QM; BMNH.

Distribution

IMCRA

Norfolk Island Province (21)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: closed forest, flightless, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes

• Violagonum Darlington, P.J. Jr 1956. Australian carabid beetles III. Notes on the Agonini. Psyche (Cambridge) Camb. 63: 1-10 [8].

  Type species:

   Colpodes violaceus Chaudoir, 1844 by original designation.

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

New Britian, the Moluccas and Micronesia.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

History of changes

• Colpodes violaceus Chaudoir, M. de 1859. Monographie du genre Colpodes Macleay. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 3 7: 287-364 [351].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Aru, Indonesia (as Îles Arrou).
• Colpodes mucronatus Macleay, W.J. 1887. The insects of the Cairns district, northern Queensland. Part II. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 2(2): 213-238 [Date published August 31, 1887: Second Series commenced 1886-87] [218].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 1 specimen located, Mossman River, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Darlington, P.J. Jr 1971. The carabid beetles of New Guinea. Part IV. General considerations; analysis and history of fauna; taxonomic supplement. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 142: 129-337 [284]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cairns and Kuranda.

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, closed forest, predator, volant.

General References

Darlington, P.J. Jr 1956. Australian carabid beetles III. Notes on the Agonini. Psyche (Cambridge) Camb. 63: 1-10 [8] (taxonomy)

History of changes