Species Booloumba inflatacephalus Chandler, 2001

<I>Bouloumba inflatacephalus </I>Chandler

Bouloumba inflatacephalus Chandler

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Species Booloumba inflatacephalus Chandler, 2001

Booloumba inflatacephalus 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] [311].
Type data:
Holotype ANIC ♂, Lamington National Park, O'Reillys, QLD.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

Diagnosis

Length 1.6-1.8 mm. Body with short, sparse appressed setae, denser on abdomen. Head wider than pronotum; ventrolateral margins beneath eyes slightly angulate; with wide C-shaped setose sulci splitting ventrolateral carinae from mandibular bases to ventral margins of eyes. Male eyes with about 20 facets; with head vertex broadly convex, medially flattened and sloping anterior to eyes, with median recurved tubercle at anterior margin between antennal insertions. Metasternum broadly and longitudinally impressed through length, with tufts of thick curved setae at apical margin of metasternum adjacent to inner margins of metacoxae. 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] [311]

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

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

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