Species Rhytisternus arnheimensis (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Feronia arnheimensis 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)] [134].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG ♀, Arnhem Land (as Arnheims), NT.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1937. Sui tipi dei Platysmatini (Coleop. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau, nel Museo Civico di Genova. II. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 59: 461-475 [463].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, SA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Sloane, T.G. 1895. Notes on Carabidae from Lake Callabonna, Central Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 19: 124-137 [133] (taxonomy)

History of changes