Species Pseudotetracha australis (Chaudoir, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tetracha australis Chaudoir, M. de 1865. Catalogue de la collection de Cicindélètes. de M. le Baron de Chaudoir. Bruxelles : J. Nuys 64 pp. [63].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP ♂♀, interior Australia.
• Tetracha waterhousii 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)] [31].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCG, 700 miles NW Adelaide, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Horn, W. 1926. Carabidae: Cicindelinae. pp. 1-345 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 1 Pars 86. [Date published 10/May/1926] [69]

Generic Combinations

• Pseudotetracha australis (Chaudoir, 1865).
• Megacephala australis (Chaudoir, 1865).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nocturnal, predator, riparian, terrestrial.

Larva: burrower, predator.

History of changes