Species Rhytisternus cyathoderus (Chaudoir, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Feronia (Rhytisternus) cyathodera Chaudoir, M. de 1865. Essai sur les Féronides de l'Australie et de la Nouvelle-Zélande. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 38(3-4): 65-112 [107].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀, Paroo River (as Parvo), NSW.
• Feronia lachlandiensis 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)] [133].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MCG ♀, Lachlan River, NSW.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Straneo, S.L. 1937. Sui tipi dei Platysmatini (Coleop. Carabid.) Australiani della collezione Castelnau, nel Museo Civico di Genova. II. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria", Genova 59: 461-475 [464].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Chaudoir, M. de 1874. Supplément à l'essai sur les Féronies de l'Australie publié dans le Bulletin des Naturalistes de Moscou en 1865 T. ii, p. 56, Accompangé d'observations sur la synonymie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 6: 569–601 [598]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: hygrophilous, low open woodland, low shrubland, predator, terrestrial.

General References

Macleay, W.J. 1888. The insects of King's Sound and its vicinity. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 443-480 [477] (taxonomy)

History of changes