Species Tyrogetus occidentalis Chandler, 1987
- Tyrogetus occidentalis Chandler, D.S. 1987. New genera and species of Tyrini from Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94: 15-34 [17].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂ (//Tasmania, Mt. Field Nat. Park, near SE end Lake Fenton, 1000m, I-30/II-5-1980, A. Newton & M. Thayer, Nothofagus gunnii-Richea spp.- Arthrotaxis spp.-Phyllocladus asplen. forest//), Mt Field National Park, nr SE end Lake Fenton, TAS.
Distribution
States
Tasmania
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 1.68-1.77 mm. Body with moderately dense appressed setae; maxillary palpi with last segment angulate and directed laterally in apical two-thirds, abruptly swollen at point of angulation; eyes with about 15 facets; elytra with discal stria extending past middle; tergite I twice length of II, II as long as IV, III three-fourths length of II, V with narrowly truncate apex, apex slightly indented; protrochanters with stout swollen ventral knob, profemora with flattened carina on inner margin from near base to middle, protibia with small spur at apex. Males with sternites II-IV flattened medially, V with shallow longitudinal groove. Females with sternites II-V medially convex.
Diagnosis References
Chandler, D.S. 1987. New genera and species of Tyrini from Australia (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 94: 15-34 [17]
History of changes
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12-Feb-2010 | (import) |