Species Sarticus (Sarticus) discopunctatus (Chaudoir, 1865)

Museums

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• Feronia (Steropus) discopunctata 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 [98].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 14 (♂ ♀), Melbourne, VIC.
• Sarticus ovicollis Motschulsky, V. 1865. Énumération des nouvelles espèces de Coléoptères rapportés de ses voyages. 4-ème article (Suite). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 38: 227-313 [265].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMM, Australia (as Nouv. Hollande).
• Feronia germari 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)] [136].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Adelaide, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) MCG.

  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 [462].
• Feronia bonvouloirei 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)] [137].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Brisbane, QLD.

  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 [462].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chaudoir, M. de 1874. Supplément à l'essai sur les Féronies de l'Australie publié dans le Bulletin des Naturalistes de Moscou en 1865 T. ii, p. 56, Accompangé d'observations sur la synonymie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 6: 569–601 [595]

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, predator, tall open shrubland, terrestrial.

General References

Sloane, T.G. 1889. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. I Review of the genus Sarticus (Carabidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 501-512 [506] (taxonomy)

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