Species Porrostoma vittatum (Blackburn, 1888)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Metriorhynchus vittatus Blackburn, T. [1887] 1888. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera with descriptions of new species. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 177-287 [258].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH ♂ (whereabouts of other syntype(s) unknown), Port Lincoln, SA.

 

Generic Combinations

• Porrostoma vittatum (Blackburn, 1888). —
  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

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

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)