Species Pseudoterus euplectiformis Chandler, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pseudoterus euplectiformis Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [394].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, 3 km ENE Mt Tozer, QLD [12°44'S 143°14'E].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

Diagnosis

Length 1.2 mm. Body minutely punctulate, setae appressed. Head trapezoidal; with antennal tubercles divided by thin black carina from lateral margins; ninth antennomeres slightly longer and wider than eighth antennomeres; eyes as long as posterolateral margins of head, margins posterior to eyes converging basally; median rounded knob on vertex low and rounded, with shallow sulcus on posterior margins. Pronotum with lateral margins broadly rounded, lateral longitudinal sulci distinct to pronotal apex; median antebasal impression only slightly wider than distance between median and lateral antebasal foveae. Male eyes with about 50 facets.

 

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [394]

 

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)