Genus Pristoderus Hope, 1840

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• Pristoderus Hope, F.W. 1840. The Coleopterist's Manual, containing various families, genera, and species, of beetles, recorded by Linneus and Fabricius. Also, descriptions of newly discovered and unpublished insects. London : Bowdery & Kerby Vol. 3 vi 191 pp. 3 pls. [145].

  Type species:

   Dermestes scaber Fabricius, 1775 by original designation.
• Ulonotus Erichson, W.F. 1845. Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands. Coleoptera 3. Berlin : Nicolai 320 pp. [255].

  Type species:

   Bolitophagus antarcticus White, 1846 by subsequent monotypy, see Lacordaire, T. 1854. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Genera des coléoptères, ou exposé méthodique et critique de tous les genres proposés jusquici dans cet orde d'insectes. Paris : Librairie encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 2 548 pp. [360].
• Tarphiomimetes Wollaston, T.V. 1873. On two new genera of Cordyliidae from New Zealand. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 10: 9-13 [9].

  Type species:

   Tarphiomimetes lawsoni Wollaston, 1873 by subsequent designation, see Ivie, M.A. & Ślipiński, S.A. 1990. Catalog of the genera of world Colydiidae (Coleoptera). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 43(Suplement 1): 1-32 [Date published 15 Nov 1990] [9].
• Dryptops Broun, T. 1882. On the New Zealand Carabidae. New Zealand Journal of Science 1: 287-304 [Date published 1882-1883: this paper includes Coleoptera other than Carabidae, even though title stipulates New Zealand Carabidae] [292].

  Type species:

   Dryptops dorsalis Broun, 1882 by subsequent designation, see Ivie, M.A. & Ślipiński, S.A. 1990. Catalog of the genera of world Colydiidae (Coleoptera). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 43(Suplement 1): 1-32 [Date published 15 Nov 1990] [8].
• Sparactus Erichson, W.F. 1845. Naturgeschichte der Insecten Deutschlands. Coleoptera 3. Berlin : Nicolai 320 pp. [256].

  Type species:

   Ditoma interrupta Erichson, 1842 by monotypy.
• Recyntus Broun, T. 1882. On the New Zealand Carabidae. New Zealand Journal of Science 1: 287-304 [Date published 1882-1883: this paper includes Coleoptera other than Carabidae, even though title stipulates New Zealand Carabidae] [293].

  Type species:

   Ulonotus tuberculatus Broun, 1880 by original designation.
• Enarsus Pascoe, F.P. 1866. Notices of new or little known genera and species of Coleoptera. Part V. Journal of Entomology 2: 443-493, pls xviii-xix [Date published Jun. 1866] [444].

  Type species:

   Enarsus bakewelli Pascoe, 1886 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Flinders (FLI), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), New England Tablelands (NET), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Gawler (GAW), NSW North Coast (NNC), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS) ; ACT, Qld, SA, Tas, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Warren (WAR) ; NSW, Qld, Tas, WA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Finke (FIN) ; Vic: Australian Alps (AA)

General References

Turco, F., Ślipiński, A. & Lambkin, C.L. 2012. Taxonomic revision of Australian Pristoderus Hope (Coleoptera, Zopheridae). Zootaxa 3239: 1–34

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