Genus Tasmanitachoides Erwin, 1972

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• Tasmanitachoides Erwin, T.L. 1972. Two new genera of Bembidiine carabid beetles from Australia and South America with notes of their phylogenetic and zoogeographic significance (Coleoptera). Breviora. Museum of Comparative Zoology 383: 1–19 [2].

  Type species:

   Bembidion hobarti Blackburn, 1901 by original designation.

Introduction

A phylogeny and updated key to species was provided by Maddison and Porch (2021), including the confirmation of five putative species new to science in need of formal taxonomic description.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), King (KIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

Baehr, M. 2001. Tasmanitachoides Erwin glabellus n. sp. from north Queensland, Australia, with a note on Tasmanitachoides lutus (Darlington) (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Bembidiinae). Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 24(1): 1-7 (new species and key to genus)

Baehr, M. 2010. Two new species of the genus Tasmanitachoides Erwin, 1972 from northern Australia (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Trechitae). Entomologische Blätter 106: 25-39 [Date published 30-XII-2010] [33-38] (key to spp, checklist, 'remarks' on genus)

Grebennikov, V.V. 2008. Tasmanitachoides belongs to Trechini (Coleoptera: Carabidae): discovery of the larva, its phylogenetic implications and revised key to Trechitae genera. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 479-488

Maddison, D. & Porch, N. 2021. A preliminary phylogeny and review of the genus Tasmanitachoides, with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Bembidarenini). ZooKeys 1044: 153-196

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