Species Sphallomorpha laevis (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Silphomorpha laevis 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 ♂, Port Denison, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) MCG ♂, Port Denison, QLD; MCG ♀, Port Denison, QLD.

  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. [154].
• Silphomorpha punctatissima Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of King's Sound and its vicinity. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 443-480 [457].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂, King Sound, WA.

  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. [154].

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. [154]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, eucalyptus trees, myrmecophilous, 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. [154] (redescription)

Baehr, M. 1994. New species and new records of the genus Sphallomorpha Westwood from Australia and New Guinea. 3rd supplement to the “Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian Region 1.” (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Spixiana (Munich) 17(3): 215-235 [Date published 1/Nov/1994] [230] (distribution)

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 [103] (new records)

History of changes