Homethes elegans (a species of ground-beetle)
Basis for Tasmanian occurrence
Classification
Suborder: Adephaga
Superfamily: Caraboidea
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Harpalinae
Tribe: Odacanthini
Morphology
Flightedness: winged and assumed capable of flight
Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Sloane, T.G. (1920). The Carabidae of Tasmania. Proc. Linn. Soc. NSW 45: 113-178.
Ecology
Association with dead wood or old trees: not saproxylic
Ecological attributes: — Affiliated with young (ex-clearfelled) forest (Michaels, 1999) — Affliliated with young (ex-clearfelled) forest (Baker et al., 2009c) — Affliliated with young (ex-clearfelled) forest (Grove, 2009) — Dry sclerophyll forest can be suitable habitat (Michaels, 1999b) — Native grassland can be suitable habitat (Michaels, 1999b) — Primarily associated with young (ex-clearfelled) forest (Taylor et al., 2000).
Collection method(s) for TFIC material: — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Pitfall trapping.
Source ecological literature:
Baker, S.C. (2000). Forest litter beetles and their habitat: a comparison of forest regenerated by wildfire and logging practices. Hons. thesis, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.
Baker, S.C. (2006b). Ecology and conservation of ground-dwelling beetles in managed wet eucalypt forest: edge and riparian effects. PhD thesis, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.
Grove, S.J. & Yaxley, B. (2005). Wildlife habitat strips and native forest ground-active beetle assemblages in plantation nodes in northeast Tasmania. Aust. J. Entom. 44 (4): 331-343.
Grove, S.J. (2009c). Do wildlife habitat strips act as refuges for mature-forest carabid beetle assemblages? A case-study in Tasmanian wet eucalypt forest, Australia. For. Ecol. Manage. 259: 496-504.
Michaels, K.F. (1999a). Carabid beetles as biodiversity and ecological indicators. PhD thesis, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.
Michaels, K.F. (1999b). Carabid … communities in Tasmania: classification for nature conservation. In: Ponder, W. & Lunney, D. (Ed.), The Other 99%: …. Roy. Zool. Soc. NSW, pp. 374-379.
Taylor, R.J. et al. (2000). Occurrence of old-growth carabid beetles in retained unlogged strips in … southern Tasmania. In: Saunders, D. et al. . (Eds.), Nature Conservation 5…. Surrey Beatty, pp. 120-127.
