Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 60

New species of the genera Amblytelus Erichson, 1842 and Dystrichothorax Blackburn, 1892 from Queensland and New South Wales, Australia (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Psydrini, Amblytelina)

Citation

Baehr, M. 2016. New species of the genera Amblytelus Erichson, 1842 and Dystrichothorax Blackburn, 1892 from Queensland and New South Wales, Australia (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Psydrini, Amblytelina). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 60:13-27. https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2016.2016-01

Accepted

12 June 2016

Published online

19 September 2016

Peer reviewed

Yes

DOI

https://doi.org/10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2016.2016-01

Keywords

Coleoptera, Carabidae, Psydrini, Amblytelina, Amblytelus, Dystrichothorax, new species, Australia

Abstract 

Five new species of the amblyteline genera Amblytelus Erichson, 1842 and Dystrichothorax Blackburn, 1892 are described from southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, Australia: Amblytelus suturalis, Dystrichothorax trisetosus, and D. rufinus from New England NP, northern New South Wales, and D. wrightae and D. capitis from localites in the Border Ranges about 100 km south-west of Brisbane, south-east Queensland. The species are introduced into the keys to the Australian species of the respective genera.