Species Porrostoma ordinarium (Lea, 1909)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Metriorrhynchus ordinarius Lea, A.M. 1909. Revision of the Australian and Tasmanian Malacodermidae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1909(1): 45-251 pls II-VI [Date published Jun. 4, 1909] [81].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 2 specimens (on 1 card), Jamison, VIC.

 

Generic Combinations

• Porrostoma ordiarium (Lea, 1909). —
  Calder, A.A. 1998. Coleoptera: Elateroidea. In Wells, A. (ed.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volume 29.6. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xiii 248 pp.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Bocak, L. 1998. Nomenclatural notes on taxa of the family Lycidae described by Guérin-Méneville (Insecta: Coleoptera). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 48: 245–251

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)