Primary references

• Broun, T. 1908: Descriptions of new species of New Zealand Coleoptera (continued from p. 352.) Annals and magazine of natural history (8), 2 (11): 405–422. DOI: 10.1080/00222930808692504 BHL [first availability, see p. 409]

selected references

• Britton, E.B. 1940: The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of New Zealand. Part I. Pterostichini. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 69: 473–508, plates 68-75. full text and pdf BUGZ [see p. 482, figs. 7, 58]

• Cartellieri, M.; Lövei, G.L. 2003: Seasonal dynamics and reproductive phenology of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in fragments of native forest in the Manawatu, North Island, New Zealand. New Zealand journal of zoology, 30(1): 31–42. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2003.9518322 Reference page. 

Additional references

• Cartellieri, M.; Lövei, G.L. 2000: Seasonal dynamics and reproductive phenology of Plocamostethus planiusculus (White) and Megadromus turgidiceps (Broun), two endemic New Zealand ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Pp. 179–184 in: Brandmayr, P.; Lövei, G.L.; Casale, A.; Vigna‐Taglianti, A.; Brandmayr, T.Z. (eds.) Natural history and applied ecology of carabid beetles. Sofia: Pensoft. Pensoft series faunistica, (19 ) ISBN 9546421006 Google books
• Larochelle, A.; Larivière, M.-C. 2001: Carabidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): catalogue. Fauna of New Zealand, (43 ) ISBN 0-478-09342-X [see p. 108]
• Lövei, G.L.; Cartellieri, M. 2000: Ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in forest fragments of the Manawatu, New Zealand: collapsed assemblages? Journal of insect conservation, 4 (4): 239–244. DOI: 10.1023/A:1011370806886
• Marra, M.J. 2003: Last interglacial beetle fauna from New Zealand. Quaternary research, 59 (1): 122–131. DOI: 10.1016/S0033-5894(02)00022-4