Species Tasmanityrus thayeri Chandler, 1987

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• Tasmanityrus thayeri Chandler, D.S. 1987. New genera and species of Tyrini from Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94: 15-34 [29].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ (//Tasmania, Mt. Field Nat. Park, Lake Dobson Road, 240m, I-30/II-5-1980, A. Newton & M. Thayer, Wet sclerophyll/ berl. forest 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 1.95-2.10 mm. Male with apical flagellomere curved abruptly near apex to point, flagellomere VIII with ventral margin barely protruding at apex; mesotrochanters with ventral spine near base, mesotibiae with spatulate apical spur, spur half again as long as first tarsomere; aedeagus with broadly truncate apex, left paramere strongly developed, abruptly enlarged in apical half.

 

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 1987. New genera and species of Tyrini from Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94: 15-34 [29]

 

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)