Species Pselaphophus atriventris (Schaufuss, 1856)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bryaxis atriventris Westwood, J.O. 1856. Descriptions of various species of the Coleopterous family Pselaphidae, natives of New South Wales and South America. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ns 3: 268-280, pls 16-17 [Date published April 1856] [270].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) GMNH ♂ (GMNH w/4M, first w/ //Nigriventris [sic]Westwd., Melbourne, N. Hall, Candez Westwd.//, other 3/w //Coll. Melly//), Melbourne, VIC.
• Pselaphus clavatus King, R.L. 1865. On the Pselaphidae of Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 167-175, pl. XIV [169] [junior subjective synonym of Bryaxis atriventris Westwood, 1856].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM ♂ (//orange disc/ Pselaphus clavatus, MMacleay (sp.?)//), Clyde River, NSW.
• Pselaphus clavicornis Schaufuss, L.W. 1880. Beschreibung sechzig neuer Pselaphiden. In: Der Société entomologique de Belgique zu Brüssel zur Feier Ihres fünfundzwanzigsten Stiftungstages die herzlichsten Festgrüsse aus dem Museum Ludwig Salvator in Oberblasewitz-Dresden. Dresden-Oberblasewitz : F. Thomas pp. 5-35. [7] [junior homonym; preoccupied, not Pselaphus clavicornis Panzer 1805:pl.3 (JPH), but not congeneric after 1899. Junior subjective synonym of Bryaxis atriventris Westwood, 1856].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP (MNHP w/3 //Australie/ Curculion. clavicornis var.//), Gawler, SA; DEIB (DEI w/2 //Gawler//), Gawler, SA.
• Pselaphus clavatus edwardsi King, R.L. 1865. On the Pselaphidae of Australia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: 167-175, pl. XIV [169] [as Pselaphus clavatus var. edwardsi. Junior subjective synonym of Bryaxis atriventris Westwood, 1856].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Melbourne, VIC.
• Pselaphus clavicornis simplicior Schaufuss, L.W. 1880. Beschreibung sechzig neuer Pselaphiden. In: Der Société entomologique de Belgique zu Brüssel zur Feier Ihres fünfundzwanzigsten Stiftungstages die herzlichsten Festgrüsse aus dem Museum Ludwig Salvator in Oberblasewitz-Dresden. Dresden-Oberblasewitz : F. Thomas pp. 5-35. [8] [as Pselaphus clavicornis var. simplicior. Junior subjective synonym of Bryaxis atriventris Westwood, 1856].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, not given.
• Curculionellus clavicornis vexator Schaufuss, L.W. 1886. Beschreibung neuer Pselaphiden aus der Sammlung des Museum Ludwig Salvator. Ein Beitrag zur Fauna Brasiliens, der Kgl. Niederlaendischen Besitzungen in Indien und Neuhollands. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 29: 241-296, pls 10-11 [Date published May 1886] [254] [as Curculionellus clavicornis var. vexator. Junior subjective synonym of Bryaxis atriventris Westwood, 1856].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP (MNHP w/HT //Australie//), TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Raffray, A. 1900. Australian Pselaphidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 25: 131-249, pl. 1 [Date published 8 Aug. 1900] [202]

 

Generic Combinations

• Pselaphophus atriventris (Westwood, 1856).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)