Species Sphallomorpha polita (Macleay, 1871)

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• Silphomorpha polita Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [93].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM K11987, K149238 ♂, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♀ (abdomen absent), Gayndah, QLD; ANIC(MMUS) ♂ (fragments), Gayndah, 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. [157].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), 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, predator, under bark, volant.

General References

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 [104] (new record)

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