Species Simodontus (Simodontus) rotundipennis (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phorticosomus rotundipennis 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)] [91] [as Forticosomus].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Paroo River, NSW or 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 [474].
• Simodontus mandibularis Sloane, T.G. 1900. Studies in Australian Entomology. No IX New species of Carabidae (with notes on some previously described species, and synoptic lists of species). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 24: 553-584 [574].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 1 specimen, Mulwala, NSW, Mallee district, VIC; AM(MMUS) 1 specimen, Mulwala, NSW, Mallee district, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1915. Studies in Australian Entomology. No. XVII New genera and species of Carabidae. (Pamborini, Migadopini, Broscini, Cunepectini, Nomoni, Pterostichini, Platynini, Oodini, Harpalini, Lebiini). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 40: 438-473 [462]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

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

History of changes