Species Sphallomorpha marginata (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Silphomorpha marginata 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)] [26] [non Silphomorpha marginata Castelnau, 1867 (p. 25)].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV (Howitt coll.) ♂, Paroo River, NSW (Murray River from label).

  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. [350].
• Silphomorpha spreta Blackburn, T. 1888. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 805-875 [805].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, NT.

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. [350]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: arboreal, myrmecophilous, predator, 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. [350] (redescription)

Baehr, M. 2009. New and rare species of the pseudomorphine genera Sphallomorpha Westwood, Adelotopus Hope, and Pseudomorpha Kirby mainly from far Northern Territory, Australia (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pseudomorphinae). Spixiana (Munich) 32(2): 231-253 [Date published 30-XI-2009] [237] (new records)

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 [25, 26] (taxonomy)

History of changes