Species Sphallomorpha albopicta Newman, 1850

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• Sphallomorpha albopicta Newman, 1850.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH (not found by Moore, 1968, presumed lost), Adelaide, SA.
• Pseudomorpha colymbetoides Westwood, J.O. 1853. Pseudomorpha et Adelotopus, genera duo anomalia e familia Carabidarum synoptice tractata. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée. Paris 2 5: 395-409 pls xiv-xv [403 pl. 14 fig. 10].

  Type data:

   Lectotype OUM T18 1/8 ♂, Adelaide, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) OUM T18 2/8-18 5/8, 18 7/8, 18 8/8 4♂, 2♀, Adelaide, SA; OUM T18 6/8 ♀, Adelaide, SA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Baehr, M. 1992. Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian Region. 1. The previous genera Sphallomorpha Westwood and Silphomorpha Westwood. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Spixiana (Munich) Supplement 18: 440 pp. [318].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Baehr, M. 1992. Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian Region. 1. The previous genera Sphallomorpha Westwood and Silphomorpha Westwood. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Spixiana (Munich) Supplement 18: 440 pp. [318]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, myrmecophilous (host(s): Iridomyrmex purpureus (Smith, 1858) [FORMICIDAE]), predator, volant.

Larva: burrower.

General References

Baehr, M. 1992. Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian Region. 1. The previous genera Sphallomorpha Westwood and Silphomorpha Westwood. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Spixiana (Munich) Supplement 18: 440 pp. [318] (redescription)

Baehr, M. 2002. New species and new records of Australian and Oriental Pseudomorphinae 4th supplement to the revisions of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian Region. Spixiana (Munich) 25(2): 101-129 [108] (new records)

Moore, B.P. 1974. The larval habits of two species of Sphallomorpha Westwood (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pseudomorphinae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 13: 179-183 [181] (larval description and habits as Sphallomorpha colymbetoides)

Moore, B.P. & Wallbank, B.E. 1968. Chemical composition of the defensive secretion in carabid beetles and its importance as a taxonomic character. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 37(5–6): 62-72 [66] (defense secretion chemistry)

Notman, H. 1925. A review of the beetle family Pseudomorphinae, and a suggestion for a rearrangement of the Adephaga, with descriptions of a new genus and new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 67(14): 1-34 [26] (taxonomy)

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