Speotarus Moore, 1964

Baehr, Martin, 2020, A new species of the genus Speotarus Moore from interior Australia, Spixiana 43 (1), pp. 37-41 : 38

Genus Speotarus Moore, 1964

Moore, 1964: 71. – Moore at al. 1987: 304; Lorenz 2005: 497.

Type species. Speotarus lucifugus Moore, 1964 (by original designation).

Diagnosis. Genus of Lebiini , apparently related to the anomotarine lineage within the subtribe Calleidina , as it will be used in the forthcoming book on the Australian Carabidae (Australian beetles vol. 2). Elongate, rufous species; eye moderately large, but laterad little produced, orbit elongate; mentum dentate; apical palpomere of labial palpus moderately widened. Prothorax narrow; base not produced and laterally not excised; elytra striate, glabrous; apex convex, not excised; metathoracic wings present; 4 th tarsomeres narrow and not excised, not squamose beneath; tarsal claws not denticulate; aedeagus elongate, internal sac with an elongate, basally incurved, sclerotized rod; gonocoxites elongate, gonocoxite 2 straight, with tapering apex, with a tuft of short subapical setae and a larger dorsal and ventral seta each near apex.

The single described species and one subspecies are recorded from caves in south-western Australia, south-western and south-eastern South Australia, and eastern New South Wales.