Species Sphallomorpha dubia (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Silphomorpha dubia 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)] [29].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG ♂, Sydney, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) MCG 2♂, ♀, Sydney, NSW.

  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. [132].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, eucalyptus trees, myrmecophilous, open forest, predator, under bark, volant.

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. [132] (redescription)

History of changes