Species Zeodera longiformis (Sloane, 1898)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Loxandrus longiformis Sloane, T.G. 1898. On Carabidae from West Australia, sent by Mr. A.M. Lea (with descriptions of new genera and species, synoptic tables etc.). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 23: 444-520 [479].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SAMA 1 specimen, Upper Ord and Behn Rivers, WA; ANIC (Sloane coll.), Upper Ord and Behn Rivers, WA.

Generic Combinations

• Zeodera longiformis (Sloane, 1898).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Dampierland (DL), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Moore, B.P. 1979. Chemical defense in Carabids and its bearing on phylogeny. pp. 193-203 in Erwin, T.L., Ball, G.E., Whitehead, D.R. & Halpern, A.L. (eds). Carabid beetles: Their evolution, natural history, and classification. The Hague : W. Junk vii 635 pp. [200]

Moore, B.P. & Wallbank, B.E. 1968. Chemical composition of the defensive secretion in carabid beetles and its importance as a taxonomic character. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London 37(5–6): 62-72 [66]

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