Species Warrumbungle orientalis Chandler, 2001
- Warrumbungle orientalis Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [463].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Warrumbungle National Park, 2 km NE on Siding Springs Observatory Road, NSW.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
IBRA
NSW: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD)
Original AFD Distribution Data
Australian Region
- Australia
- New South Wales
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: predator, terrestrial.
Diagnosis
Length 2.2 mm. Pronotum with lateral impression between apical carina and median dorsoventral carina divided into dorsal and ventral portions by weaker transverse carina. Visible tergite 4 (VII) of abdomen with broad shallow lateral impressions, 5 (VIII) with smaller shallow impressions near anterobasal angles. Male eyes with about 25 facets; protrochanters broadly and angularly rounded; protibiae with small mesal spines near apex. Females unknown.
Diagnosis References
Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [463]
History of changes
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01-Jul-2020 | 21-Dec-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |