Species Tasmanityrus newtoni Chandler, 1987

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tasmanityrus newtoni Chandler, D.S. 1987. New genera and species of Tyrini from Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94: 15-34 [24].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (//Tasmania, Mt. Field Nat. Park, lake Dobson Road, 610m, I-30/II-4-1980, A. Newton & M. Thayer, Nothofagus-Eucalyptus forest/berl. leaf & log litter//), Mt Field National Park, TAS.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

Diagnosis

Length 1.74-1.95 mm. Male with apex of last flagellomere curved ventrally, acute, venter impressed in apical half, penultimate flagellomere somewhat flattened dorso-ventrally but otherwise symmetrical; mesotrochanters with ventral spine near base, mesotibiae with apically spatulate to pedunculate spur, almost twice as long as first tarsomere; aedeagus with symmetrical apex, right paramere strongly developed, flattened and twisted ventrally to subacute apex.

 

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 1987. New genera and species of Tyrini from Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94: 15-34 [24]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)