Moriomorphini, Sloane, 1890

Baehr, Martin & Reid, Chris A. M., 2017, On a Collection of Carabidae from Timor Leste, with Descriptions of Nine New Species (Insecta: Coleoptera, Carabidae), Records of the Australian Museum 69 (6), pp. 421-450 : 424

Tribe Moriomorphini , subtribe

Mecyclothoracina

Moriomorphini is one of the largest tribes of subfamily Psydrinae , a polyphyletic group in the traditional sense which has been split up (Baehr, 1999; Bouchard et al., 2011; Liebherr 2011b). Moriomorphini is a diverse group of carabid beetles in terms of morphology and ecology. These beetles live in leaf litter on the ground in lowland and montane forest and on or under bark of various trees in forest, woodland, and even fairly dry country ( Baehr, 2003a, 2005, 2007), but also in moss and other epiphytes in rain forest. With respect to subgroups and to morphology, Moriomorphini and other psydrine Carabidae are most diverse in Australia ( Moore, 1963; Moore et al., 1987; Baehr, 1999) and many groups are distributed in cool or even cold temperate habitats in Australia, New Zealand, southern South America, and on a number of subantarctic islands. Some groups, however, have invaded tropical, usually montane, regions, for example in North Queensland, New Guinea, and some Pacific islands, where they have undergone remarkable taxonomic radiations ( Baehr, 1995a, 1999, 2003a, 2005; Liebherr, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011a, 2013, 2015; Liebherr & Marris 2008; Moore, 1984; Moore et al., 1987; Perrault, 1978, 1992). Very few species occur in Africa, the southern Oriental Region and the Holarctic Region.