Species Scaraphites silenus (Westwood, 1842)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scarites silenus Westwood, J.O. 1842. On the Scaritideous beetles of New Holland. 81-90 pl. 24 in Westwood, J.O. (ed.). Arcana Entomologica or illustrations of new rare and interesting insects. London : Smith Vol. 1 iv 192 pp. 48 pls. [87].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM (or BMNH*), Swan River, WA.
• Scarites bacchus Westwood, J.O. 1842. On the Scaritideous beetles of New Holland. 81-90 pl. 24 in Westwood, J.O. (ed.). Arcana Entomologica or illustrations of new rare and interesting insects. London : Smith Vol. 1 iv 192 pp. 48 pls. [87 pl. 22 fig. 4].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM, Swan River, WA.
• Scaraphites heros 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)] [43].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCG, Champion Bay, WA; NMV, Champion Bay, WA.
• Scaraphites mastersi Macleay, W.J. 1869. On the Scaritidae of New Holland. 4th paper. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 58-70 [70].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM, Mt Baker, WA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bänninger, M. 1940. On Australian Pamborini, Ozaenini and Scaratini (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Novitates Zoologicae 42: 203-213 [208]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, fossorial, nocturnal, openheath, predator, sandy soil, terrestrial.

History of changes