Species Rhabdotus reflexus (Chaudoir, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Feronia (Rhabdotus) reflexa Chaudoir, M. de 1865. Essai sur les Féronides de l'Australie et de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 38(3-4): 65-112 [94].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 5 specimens, TAS.

  Type locality references:

  Bates, H.W. 1874. On the geodephagous Coleoptera of New Zealand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 13: 233-246, 270-277 [246].
• Feronia diemenensis 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)] [124].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, TAS.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1936. Sui tipi dei Platysmatini (Coleopt. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau, nel Museo Civico di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 59: 246-259 [250].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [410]
• Sloane, T.G. 1920. The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 113-178 [162]
• 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] [548]

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: closed forest, flightless, predator, tall forest, terrestrial.

Under stones.

Extra Ecological Information

Possible evidence of parental care.

General References

Giachino, P.M. 2005. Revision of the genus Rhabdotus Chaudoir, 1865 and description of the larva of R. reflexus (Chaudoir, 1865) (Coleoptera, Carabidae). pp. 279-294 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. II. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 42, 644 pp. [283] (revised diagnosis, notes on larvae and life history)

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