Species Somotrichus elevatus (Fabricius, 1787)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Carabus elevatus Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericus, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 1 xx 348 pp.

 

Introduction

Baehr (2007: ) notes 'In a sample of Australian carabids received recently from Department of Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, a single specimen of the characteristic small lebiine Somotrichus elevatus was detected. This species probably is indigenous to tropical Africa, but meanwhile it is distributed over large parts of the world and, according to Jedlicka (1963) and Darlington (1968), in the Oriental-Papuan region it was recorded from southern Asia including Java, Sulawesi, certain islands of the Moluccas, and from Palau Islands, though apparently not yet from New Guinea. According to Moore et. al. (1987) it was not yet known from Australia. Hence the single specimen from North Queensland, labeled “Atherton, Qld. 7.ii.1975 H. & A. Howden” apparently is the first record of this widespread species from Australia.'

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan, predominantly in tropics.

Introduced.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Baehr, M. 2007. A further new Lebia Latreille of the karenia-group from northern Queensland, Australia, with the first Australian record of Somotrichus elevatus (Fabricius) (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiinae). 2nd supplement to “The genus Lebia Latreille in the Australian-Papuan Region”. Spixiana (Munich) 30: 169-172 [172]

 

History of changes

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