Species Scopodes aterrimus Chaudoir, 1872

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• Scopodes aterrimus Chaudoir, M. de 1872. Observations sur quelques genre de Carabiques, avec la description d'espèces nouvelles. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 45(2): 382-420 [391].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 1 specimen located, SW Australia.
• Scopodes sydneyensis Sloane, T.G. 1903. Studies in Australian Entomology. No XII New Carabidae (Panageini, Bembidiini, Pogonini, Platysmatini, Platynini, Lebiini, with revisional lists of genera and speecis [sic], some notes on synonymy, etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 28: 566-642 [639].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 2 specimens, Sydney, NSW; AM 1 specimen, Sydney, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1920. The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 113-178 [177]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: diurnal, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Baehr, M. 2010. The ground-beetle genera Scopodes Erichson and Parascopodes Darlington in Australia (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pentagonicini). Coleoptera 14: 1-188 [74-76]

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