Species Megacephala basalis (Macleay, 1866)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tetracha basalis Macleay, W.J. 1866. (Note). Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 1: lv-lvi [lviii].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 4 specimens, Port Denison, QLD.
• Tetracha basalis phaeoxantha Horn, W. 1894. Neue Cicindeleten. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1894: 109-112 [110].

  Type data:

   Holotype DEIB, Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Horn, W. 1926. Carabidae: Cicindelinae. pp. 1-345 in Schenkling, S. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk. Berlin : W. Junk Vol. 1 Pars 86. [Date published 10/May/1926] [71]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nocturnal, predator, riparian, terrestrial.

Larva: burrower, predator.

History of changes