Genus Sunorfa Raffray, 1882

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Genus Sunorfa Raffray, 1882

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

Raffray, A. 1913. Coleoptera, Pselaphidae, de l'Archipel des Seychelles. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 16: 121–138, pl. 10 [134]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

25 species are currently placed in this genus.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Northern Territory
- Queensland: NE coastal

Oriental Region

Diagnosis

Head with vertexal foveae. Pronotum with distinct antebasal sulcus; lateral antebasal foveae distinct, lacking median antebasal fovea; lateral procoxal foveae small or lacking. Elytra with 3-4 faint foveae at base, with marginal carinae; elytra lacking sutural stria. Abdomen cylindrical, lacking lateral margins.

ID Keys

Key to Australian species (Chandler 1987: 68).

1. Punctures on elytra large, 6 punctures in line perpendicular from sutural stria to humeral angle; males with vertex deeply excavated anterior to tuberculate area, pronotum with setose bumps on antero-lateral margins … testacea Chandler

Punctures on elytra small, 10 punctures in line perpendicular from sutural stria to humeral angle; males with vertex only slightly depressed anterior to median tubercle, pronotum lacking setose bumps … nigripes Chandler