Species Tasmanityrus orientalis Chandler, 1987

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• Tasmanityrus orientalis Chandler, D.S. 1987. New genera and species of Tyrini from Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94: 15-34 [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (//Tasmania, 4 km SE Weldborough, 450m, II-12/14-1980, A. Newton & M. Thayer, Nothofagus, etc./ berl. leaf & log litter//), 4 km SE Weldborough, 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 1.77-1.89 mm. Males with oblique ventral impression on last flagellomere, sharply curved ventrally to point, flagellomere VIII only slightly protruding on ventral apical margin, nearly symmetrical; mesotrochanters with long spine near base, mesotibiae with long thick apical spur half again as long as first mesotarsomeres; aedeagus with broad asymmetrical apex, left paramere strongly developed, curved laterally and narrowing to point.

 

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 1987. New genera and species of Tyrini from Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94: 15-34 [28]

 

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)