Species Setodyschirius mastersii (Macleay, 1866)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dyschirius mastersii Macleay, W.J. 1866. (Note). Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: lv-lvi [lix].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MMUS (The holotype, i.e. the single specimens with the locality data ‘King George´s Sound’ (Western Australia) was originally placed in MMSA and later should be transferred to ANIC. According to personal communication with T. Weir (ANIC) and E. Jefferys (MMSA), the specimen is missing from both museums and was probably destroyed (? by noxious insects) (Bulirsch 2011)), King George Sound, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Setodyschirius mastersii (Macleay, 1866). —
  Fedorenko, D.N. 1996. Reclassification of world Dyschiriini, with a revision of the Palearctic fauna (Coleoptera, Carabidae). [Pensoft Series Faunistica Vol. 4]. Sofia & Moscow : Pensoft Publishers 224 pp.

Introduction

Bulirsch (2011) provides a rediscription of the species.

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: fossorial, noctidiurnal, predator (host(s): Bledius sp. [STAPHYLINIDAE]), sandy soil, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Bulirsch, P. 2011. A taxonomic revision of the Australian genus Setodyschirius with description of six new species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51(1): 55-81 [59, Fig. 3]

History of changes