Species Porrostoma occidentalis (Blackburn, 1892)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Metriorhynchus occidentalis Blackburn, T. 1892. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part X. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 6(3): 479-550 [Date published May 23, 1892] [526].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1 specimen (whereabouts of other syntype(s) unknown), Eyre's Sandy Patch, WA.

 

Generic Combinations

• Porrostoma occidentalis (Blackburn, 1892). —
  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

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

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
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	19-Jan-2021	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
		12-Feb-2010	(import)