Species Saprocyphon costellifera (Carter, 1935)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Elodes costellifera Carter, H.J. 1935. Australian Coleoptera. Notes and new species. No. IX. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 179-193 [192].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♀, Warburton, VIC.
  Paratype(s) SAMA ♂, Mt Buffalo, VIC.

 

Generic Combinations

• Pseudomicrocara costellifera (Carter, 1935). —
  Armstrong, J.W.T. 1953. On Australian Helodidae (Coleoptera). I. Description of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 78(1-2): 19–32 [12 Jun. 1953]
• Saprocyphon costellifera (Carter, 1935). —
  Watts, C.H.S., Bradford, T.M., Cooper, S.J.B. & Libonatti, M.L. 2020. New genera, species and combinations in the Pseudomicrocara Armstrong group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology supported by mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data. Zootaxa 4831(1): 1-66 [58]

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: terrestrial, volant.

 

General References

Watts, C.H.S 2007. Revision of the Australian Pseudomicrocara Armstrong (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 131(1): 1-82 [59-60, fig. 86] (redescription)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
24-Dec-2020	SCIRTOIDEA Fleming, 1821	22-Dec-2020	MODIFIED
27-Mar-2013		27-Mar-2013	MODIFIED
27-Mar-2013		03-Dec-2012	MODIFIED
17-Aug-2011		17-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2011		05-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)