Bembidion sublimbatum (Wollaston, 1877:12)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Bembidium sublimbatus Wollaston, 1877:12 (basionym); Pseudophilochthus sublimatus (Wollaston, 1877); Bembidion sublimbatus (Wollaston, 1877:12)
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1884-1886 (Maddison et al., 2020)
"Pseudophilochthus sublimatus (CR/EX): a species of endemic groundbeetle, it was recorded from the High Central Ridge in an area which has subsequently eroded."
(Oldfield et al., 1999:107)
Distribution
High Central Ridge, St Helena
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
Above: "copyright The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London, some rights reserved, distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0). Scale bars: 1 mm." (Maddison et al., 2020)
References
Original scientific description:
Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. (1877). Coleoptera Sancta-Helenae. London: John van Voorst.
Other references:
Basilewsky, P. (1972). La faune terrestre de l’Île de Sainte-Hélène (deuxième partie). II. – Insectes. 9. Coleoptera. 1. Fam. Carabidae. Annales du Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale 8: 11–84.
Basilewsky, P. (1985). The South Atlantic island of Saint Helena and the origin of its beetle fauna, pp. 257-275. In: Ball, G. E. (ed.). Taxonomy, phylogeny and zoogeography of beetles and ants. A volume dedicated to the memory of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr. (1904–1983). Dordrecht, Boston and Lancaster: Dr W. Junk.
Maddison, David R., Sproul, John S. and Mendel, Howard. (2020). Origin and adaptive radiation of the exceptional and threatened bembidiine beetle fauna of St Helena (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189(4): 1155-1175. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz150
Oldfield, S. (compiler), Procter, D. (editor) and Fleming, L. V. (editor). (1999). Biodiversity: the UK Overseas Territories. Peterborough: Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
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