Species Sphallomorpha macleayi (Masters, 1895)

Museums

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• Silphomorpha macleayi Masters, G. 1895. Catalogue of the described Coleoptera of Australia. Suppl. Part I. Cicindelidae and Carabidae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales Supplement 2 10: 1-48 [13] [nom. nov. for Silphomorpha bivittatus Macleay, 1888].
• Silphomorpha bivittata 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 [459] [junior primary homonym of Silphomorpha bivittata Gestro, 1884].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC(MMUS) ♂, King Sound, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) ANIC(MMUS) ♀ (mounted on same card as lectotype), 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. [255].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, eucalyptus trees, low open woodland, 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. [255] (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] [231] (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 [107] (new records)

History of changes