Species Sphallomorpha picta (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Silphomorpha picta 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)] [25].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG ♂, Rockhampton, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) MCG 4♂, 1♀, Rockhampton, QLD; MCG ♂, Rockhampton, QLD; MCG 3♂, 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. [338].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), 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. [338] (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)

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] (taxonomy)

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