Species Prosopogmus chalybeipennis (Chaudoir, 1843)

Museums

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• Hypherpes chalybeipennis Chaudoir, M. de 1843. Carabiques nouveaux. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 16(4): 671-791 [768].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 4 specimens, Australia (as Nouvelle Hollande).
• Pterostichus (Poecilus) coracinus Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [128] [junior secondary homonym of Pterostichus coracinus (Newman, 1838)].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB, TAS.
• Feronia vilis 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)] [126].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, "mountains", VIC.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1937. Sui tipi dei Platysmatini (Coleop. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau, nel Museo Civico di Genova. II. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 59: 461-475 [470].
• Tibarisus niger Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [107].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM K14461, K205622, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E]; ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Gayndah, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chaudoir, M. de 1874. Matériaux pour servir à l'étude des Féroniens. Suite. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 48: 1-34 [3]
• Sloane, T.G. 1903. Studies in Australian Entomology. No XII New Carabidae (Panageini, Bembidiini, Pogonini, Platysmatini, Platynini, Lebiini, with revisional lists of genera and speecis [sic], some notes on synonymy, etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 566-642 [594]
• Csiki, E. 1930. Carabidae II: Harpalinae IV. pp. 529-738 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 112. [Date published 3/Jun/1930] [565]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

General References

Sloane, T.G. 1895. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. VII New genera and species of Carabidae (including some notes on previously described species, and synoptic lists of genera and species). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 9: 393-455 [429] (taxonomy)

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