Species Figulus nitens Waterhouse, 1874

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• Figulus nitens Waterhouse, C.O. 1874. Descriptions of five new Lucanoid Coleoptera. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 11: 6-8 [7].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, NSW.
• Figulus tambourinensis Mjöberg, E. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 9. Cicindelidae, Gyrinidae, Lucanidae, Paussidae. Arkiv för Zoologi 10: 1-16 [13].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RMNH, Tamborine Mtn, QLD.
• Figulus howei Lisle, M.O. de 1967. Note sur quelques Coleoptera Lucanidae nouveaux ou peu connus. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 74: 521-524 [542].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP, Lord Howe Is.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Monte, C., Zilioli, M. & Bartolozz, L. 2016. Revision of the Australian species of Figulus MacLeay, 1819 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Zootaxa 4189(3): 447–484 [457] (synonymised Figulus tambourinensis and Figulus howei with Figulus nitens)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nocturnal, terrestrial, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae in rotten wood.

General References

Monte, C., Zilioli, M. & Bartolozz, L. 2016. Revision of the Australian species of Figulus MacLeay, 1819 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Zootaxa 4189(3): 447–484 [457–461, figs 12–15] (redescription)

Reid, C.A.M., Shaw, J.J. & Jensen, A.R. 2018. The Australian Museum Lord Howe Island Expedition 2017—Coleoptera. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 26: 53-67 [62] (distribution records)

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