Species Simodontus (Simodontus) australis (Dejean, 1828)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Feronia australis Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1828. Spécies général des Coléoptères de la Collection de M. le Compte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis Vol. III vii 556 pp. [262].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 1 specimen (located in 1968 by B.P. Moore), Sydney, NSW.
• Orthomus antipodus 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 [259].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMM, Melbourne (as Port Phillip), VIC.
• Simodontus elongatus Chaudoir, M. de 1873. Matériaux pour servir à l'étude des Féroniens. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 46(2): 85-116 [111].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP ♂, southern Australia (as Australie méridionale).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Tschitschérine, T. 1890. Quelques additions à l'"Essai sur les Féronies de l'Australie et de la Nouvelle Zélande" du Baron Chaudoir. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 25: 160-171 [165]
• Csiki, E. 1930. Carabidae II: Harpalinae IV. pp. 529-738 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 2 Pars 112. [Date published 3/Jun/1930] [567]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: open forest, predator, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Chaudoir, M. de 1873. Matériaux pour servir à l'étude des Féroniens. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 46(2): 85-116 [112] (taxonomy)

History of changes