Species Figulus regularis Westwood, 1834

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• Figulus regularis Westwood, J.O. 1834. Descriptio generum nonnullorum novorum e familia Lucanidarum, cum tabula synoptica familie notulis illustrata. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 2 1: 112-124 [120].

  Type data:

   Lectotype OUM 327, Australia (as N[ew] H[olland]).
  Paralectotype(s) OUM 327.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Bomans, H.E. 1986. 50e contribution à l'étude des coléoptères lucanides. Notes synonymiques et diverses, et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles du genre Figulus Macleay (1e partie). Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France 51: 7-15 [9].
• Figulus pacificus Dejean, P.F.M.A. 1836. Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le comte Dejean. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis, Father & Sons Vol. 1–4 3, 384 pp. [194] [nom. nud.].
• Figulus australicus Thomson, J. 1862. Catalogue des Lucanides de la Collection de M. James Thomson suivi d'un Appendix renfermant la description des Coupes génériques et spécifiques nouvelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 2: 389-436 [432].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, Australia.
• Figulus laevithorax Bomans, H.E. 1987. 50e contribution à l'étude des coléoptères lucanides. Notes synonymiques et diverses, et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de genre Figulus Macleay (3e partie). Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest de la France 53: 5-14 [6].

  Type data:

   Holotype (Taulignan, France), Cape York, QLD.
  Paratype(s) MMUS 3 specimens.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Benesh, B. 1960. Lucanidae. pp. 1-178 in Hincks, W.D. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa. Gravenhage : W. Junk Part 8. [27] (synonymised Figulus australicus with Figulus regularis)
• Monte, C., Zilioli, M. & Bartolozz, L. 2016. Revision of the Australian species of Figulus MacLeay, 1819 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Zootaxa 4189(3): 447–484 [462] (synonymised Figulus laevithorax with Figulus regularis)

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Tasmanian records are uncertain (see Monte, Zilioli & Bartolozz 2016: 470)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nocturnal, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae in rotten wood.

 

General References

Hawkeswood, T.J. 1985. Host plant record for Figulus regularis Westwood (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 39: 200 (biology, host plants)

Monte, C., Zilioli, M. & Bartolozz, L. 2016. Revision of the Australian species of Figulus MacLeay, 1819 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Zootaxa 4189(3): 447–484 [461–470, figs 16–19] (redescription)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Dec-2016	LUCANIDAE	28-Nov-2016	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)