Species Figulus striatus (Olivier, 1789)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lucanus striatus Olivier, A.G. 1789. Entomologique, ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs caractères génériques et spécifiques, leur description, leur synonymie, et leur figure enluminée. Coléoptères. Paris : Baudonin Vol. 1 497 pp. 63 pls. [19].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP, ?East Indies (as India orientali).

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Also Mauritius, Réunion and Seychelles. QLD record not confirmed and this species may not occur in Australia: possibly based on a misidentification of Figulus sulcicollis Hope in Westwood, 1845 (see Monte et al. 2016).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nocturnal, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae in rotten wood.

 

General References

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 (distribution: QLD record)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Dec-2016	LUCANIDAE	16-Dec-2016	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)