Species Startes victoriae Chandler, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Startes victoriae 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] [358].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, Myrtle Gully Reserve, NW Warburton, VIC.

 

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

Diagnosis

Length 2.0-2.1 mm. Head with faint frontal fovea; maxillary palpi with third segments globular, wider than second segments. Pronotum lacking transverse antebasal sulcus, impression around median antebasal fovea as large as impression around lateral antebasal foveae. Elytra with 2 basal foveae. Male eyes with about 30 facets; protrochanters and mesotrochanters spinose; metasternum with deep circular median impression, with blunt tubercles on margins of impression posterior to mesocoxae. Female eyes with about 20 facets.

 

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] [358]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020		21-Dec-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)