Species Syleter papua Darlington, 1962

Museums

Regional Maps

• Syleter papua Darlington, P.J. Jr 1962. The carabid beetles of New Guinea Part I. Cicindelinae, Carabinae, Harpalinae through Pterostichini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 126: 321-564 pls 4 [357].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ 30152, Dobodura, Papua.
  Paratype(s) MCZ 22 specimens.

  Secondary source:

   Baehr, M. 2008. The Australian Clivinini 1. The genera Ancus Putzeys, Aspidoglossa Putzeys, Clivinarchus Sloane, Platysphyrus Sloane, Pseudoclivina Kult, Rhysocara Sloane, Syleter Andrews, the subgenera Paraclivina Kult, Semiclivina Kult, and the atrata-, biplagiata-, brevicornis-, coronata-, coryzoides-, cribrosa-, debilis-, denticollis-, grandiceps-, incerta-, lobata-, obliquata-, obsoleta-, orbitalis-, planiceps-, sulcaticeps-, tranquebaria- and wurargae-groups of the genus Clivina Latreille. With a note on a record of the genus Parathlibops Basilewsky (Scapterini) (Carabidae, Scaritinae). Coleoptera 12: 1-220 [13-14].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: fossorial, predator, terrestrial.

History of changes