Species Tasmanityrus septentrionalis Chandler, 1987

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• Tasmanityrus septentrionalis Chandler, D.S. 1987. New genera and species of Tyrini from Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94: 15-34 [30].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (//Tasmania, 34 km W Smithton, Dismal Swamp, II-26-1977, J. Kethley, mixed Nothofagus cunninghami & Acacia melanoxylon litter, base of Nothofagus cunninghami//), 34 km W Smithton, Dismal Swamp, 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 1.86 mm. Males with apex of last flagellomere curved ventrally, acute, venter impressed in apical half, penultimate flagellomere with antero-ventral angle at apex projecting; mesotrochanters with ventral spine near base, mesotibiae with long spatulate spur twice as long as first tarsomere; aedeagus with broad asymmetrical apex, left apical margin projecting, right paramere truncate at apex, acutely projecting laterally.

 

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 1987. New genera and species of Tyrini from Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94: 15-34 [30]

 

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)