Subspecies Saprinus (Saprinus) cyaneus cyaneus (Fabricius, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hister cyaneus Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [52].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMUC sex undetermined, Australia.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lackner, T. & Leschen, R.A.B. 2017. A monograph of the Australopacific Saprininae (Coleoptera, Histeridae). ZooKeys 689: 1–263 [128].
• Saprinus australasiae Blackburn, T. 1903. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXXII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 27: 91-182 [107].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM K204386, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mazur, S. 1997. A world catalogue of Histeridae (Coleoptera: Histeroidea). Genus Supplement 1997: 1-373 [Date published Nov/1997] [221]

Introduction

See review of subspecies by Lackner & Leschen (2017).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Warren (WAR)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: predator, terrestrial, volant.

Larva: predator.

General References

Lackner, T. & Leschen, R.A.B. 2017. A monograph of the Australopacific Saprininae (Coleoptera, Histeridae). ZooKeys 689: 1–263 [128]

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