Species Pseudaptinus (Thalpius) iridescens Baehr, 1985

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• Pseudaptinus (Thalpius) iridescens Baehr, M. 1985. Revision of the Australian Zuphiinae 3. The genus Pseudaptinus Castelnau (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Spixiana (Munich) 8(1): 33-57 [Date published 1 Mar. 1985] [43].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Old Doongan, WA [15°19'S 126°32'E].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Baehr, M. 2008. Two new species of the genus Pseudaptinus Castelnau from northern Australia (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Zuphiinae). The Beagle, Records of the Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory 24: 55-61 [59] (new records)

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