Species Pericompsus (Upocompsus) seticollis (Sloane, 1896)

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• Tachys seticollis Sloane, T.G. 1896. On the Australian Bembidiides referable to the genus Tachys, with the description of a new allied genus Pyrrotachys. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 21: 355-377 [366].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC (Sloane coll.) 5 specimens, Australia (as NW Aust.); SAMA 1 specimen, Australia (as NW Aust.).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Erwin, T.L. 1974. Studies of the subtribe Tachyina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini), Part II: A revision of the New World-Australian genus Pericompsus LeConte. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 162: 1–96 [19] (taxonomy)

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