Species Lissotes cancroides (Fabricius, 1787)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lucanus cancroides Fabricius, J.C. 1787. Mantissa Insectorum sistens eorum species nuper detectas adiectis characteribus genericus, differentiis specificis, emendationibus, observationibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 1 xx 348 pp. [2].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, TAS (as Terra Diemenii).
• Lissotes subtuberculatus Westwood, J.O. 1855. Descriptions of some new species of exotic Lucanidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ns 3: 197-221 [215].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♂, Australia (as Nova Hollandia?).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Moore, B. P. & Cassis, G. 1992. Lucanidae. pp. 4-19 in Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Canberra : AGPS Vol. 9 544 pp. [13]

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: flightless, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Larvae in fallen eucalypt logs.

 

General References

Bartolozzi, L. 2003. Contribution to the knowledge of the Tasmanian lucanids, with a description of two new species of Lissotes Westwood, 1855 (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). pp. 329-342 in Daccordi, M. & Giachino, P.M. (eds). Results of the Zoological Missions to Australia of the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin, Italy. I. Monografie del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 35, 565 pp. [330] (new records)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)