Species Promecoderus gibbosus (Gray, 1832)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cnemacanthus gibbosus Gray, G. 1832. Notices of new genera and species. in Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization by the Baron Cuvier. London : Whittaker, Treacher & Co. Vol. 1 (Insecta) 14-570 pp. + 53 pls. [276 pl. 15 fig. 1] [subsequently misspelled as gibbus by Castelnau, F.L. Laporte de 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to publication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [86].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM ♂ and series, TAS.

  Secondary source:

   Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)].

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

 

General References

Lacordaire, J.T. 1854. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Genera des Coléoptères Tom. 1 Contenant les familles des Cicindélètes, Carabiques, Dytiscides, Gyrinides et Palpicornes. Paris : Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret xx 486 pp. [244] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

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