Species Theprisa montana (Castelnau, 1867)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Drimostoma montana Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [112].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, Dandenongs, VIC.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1941. Sui tipi dei Pterostichini (Coleopt. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau nel Museo Civico di Genova Nota III. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 61: 83-94 [89].
• Drimostoma alpestris Laporte, F.L. [de Castelnau] 1867. Notes on Australian Coleoptera. Melbourne : Royal Society of Victoria 139 pp. [separates available prior to republication in Trans. R. Soc. Vict. 8: 30–38 (1867), 95–225 (1868)] [112].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG, "mountains", VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) MCG.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1941. Sui tipi dei Pterostichini (Coleopt. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau nel Museo Civico di Genova Nota III. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 61: 83-94 [89].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Sloane, T.G. 1920. The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 45: 113-178 [157]

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Mt Donna Buang and Tarra Valley.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

General References

Moore, B.P. 1963. Studies on Australian Carabidae (Coleoptera) 3. The Psydrinae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 115: 277-290 [285] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
13-Aug-2013		13-Aug-2013	MODIFIED
19-Jul-2012		23-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)