Species Stethotaphrus weiri Chandler, 2001

Museums

Regional Maps

• Stethotaphrus weiri 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] [476].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂, 3 km ENE Mt Tozer, QLD [12°44'S 143°14'E].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial.

 

Diagnosis

Male eyes with about 50 facets; antennal clubs formed by apical four antennomeres, VIII-X swollen, IX-X nearly as wide as long, VIII slightly larger than IX, XI robust in lateral view, two-thirds as wide as long; profemora obliquely impressed on anterodorsal face in basal halves; protibiae only slightly curved medially, thickest at middle; first tarsomeres with long thin spine at ventroapical margins, spines reaching to apices of second tarsomeres. 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] [476]

 

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)