Rhytisternus Chaudoir, 1865 Feronia (Rhytisterna) liopleura Chaudoir, 1865 On a Collection of Carabidae from Timor Leste, with Descriptions of Nine New Species (Insecta: Coleoptera, Carabidae) Baehr, Martin Reid, Chris A. M. Records of the Australian Museum 2017 2017-11-22 69 6 421 450 8KYRG Chaudoir, 1865 Chaudoir 1865 [973,1333,911,938] Insecta Carabidae Rhytisternus Animalia Coleoptera 6 427 Arthropoda genus    Rhytisternus Chaudoir, 1865: Essai sur les Féronides de l’Australie et de la Nouvelle-Zélande: 106. Typespecies:  Feronia (Rhytisterna) liopleura Chaudoir, 1865, by subsequent designation (Britton, 1940).   Diagnosis. Medium-sized to rather large species (in Pterostichini), characterized by bifid mental tooth, transversely striolate proepipleura, absence of the scutellary stria but presence of the scutellary pore on the elytra, usually incomplete striation of the elytra, absence of discal punctures and setae on the 3rd interval, and not transversely sulcate abdominal sterna. The latter character distinguishes the genus from the New Guinean genus  Rhytiferonia Darlington, 1962, that likewise possesses transversely striolate proepipleura. The genus  Rhytisternuspresently includes 24 described species that are distributed through the whole of Australia, but have not been recorded elsewhere (Moore et al., 1985, Lorenz, 2005). The genus has not been recently revised, therefore the actual number of species may be considerably larger. Several species of  Rhytisternusoccur in the Northern Territoryof Australiaopposite the island of Timor. The genus is characterized by presence of several transverse strioles on the proepisternum, a character that is similarly present only in the New Guinean genus  Rhytiferonia Darlington, 1962which, however, probably is not very closely related to  RhytisternusChaudoir ( Darlington, 1962)(see discussion below). In Australia, most species of  Rhytisternushave been sampled near water, at river banks and at or near the shores of lakes and lagoons, preferably if these are grown with some vegetation. The single species described in the present paper was collected in dwarf  Eucalyptuswoodland with grass and moss at high altitudes.