Species Porrostoma nigricauda (Kleine, 1928)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Metriorrhynchus nigricauda Kleine, R. 1928. Neue Metriorrhynchus von Australien und Batjan (Col. Lycid.). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 17(2): 120-128 [123].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) DEIB 2♀, Coen district, Cape York, QLD; IZW 714 1 specimen (labelled co-typus), Coen district, Cape York, QLD.

 

Generic Combinations

• Porrostoma nigricauda (Kleine, 1928). —
  Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp.

 

Introduction

The species was moved from Metriorrhynchus to Porrostoma by Calder (1998). Bocak et al. (2020) returned the species to Metriorrhynchus before Kusy et al. (2022) restored it as a species of Porrostoma.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: N Gulf

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Bocak, L., Motyka, M., Kusy, D. & Bilkova, R. 2020. Biodiversity inventory and distribution of Metriorrhynchina net-winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae), with the identification of generic ranges. Insects 11(10): 1–22

Kusy, D., Motyka, M., Bilkova, R. & Bocak, L. 2022. How do genomic, mitochondrial, and morphological data contribute to the Linnean classification of the porrostomine net-winged beetles (Coleoptera, Lycidae)? Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(5): 1–32

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
26-Jun-2023	LYCIDAE	26-May-2023	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)