Genus Prosopocoilus Hope & Westwood, 1845

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Genus Prosopocoilus Hope & Westwood, 1845

Prosopocoilus Hope, F.W. & Westwood, J.O. 1845. A Catalogue of the Lucanoid Coleoptera in the collection of the Rev. F.W. Hope, M.A., F.R.S., etc., together with Descriptions of the new species therein contained. London : J.C. Bridgewater 31 pp. [4] [first introduced as a subgenus of Lucanus Linnaeus, 1758].
Type species:
Lucanus cavifrons Hope & Westwood, 1845 by subsequent designation, see Arrow, G.J. 1950. Fauna of India including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Coleoptera Lamellicornia. Lucanidae and Passalidae. London : Taylor and Francis Vol. 4 xi 274 pp. 23 pls. [77].
Metopodontus Hope, F.W. & Westwood, J.O. 1845. A Catalogue of the Lucanoid Coleoptera in the collection of the Rev. F.W. Hope, M.A., F.R.S., etc., together with Descriptions of the new species therein contained. London : J.C. Bridgewater 31 pp. [4] [first introduced as a subgenus of Lucanus Linnaeus, 1758].
Type species:
Lucanus downesii Hope & Westwood, 1845 by subsequent designation, see Arrow, G.J. 1950. Fauna of India including Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Malaya. Coleoptera Lamellicornia. Lucanidae and Passalidae. London : Taylor and Francis Vol. 4 xi 274 pp. 23 pls. [78].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Benesh, B. 1960. Lucanidae. pp. 1-178 in Hincks, W.D. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa. Gravenhage : W. Junk Part 8. [62] (also for extralimital synonymy)

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Afrotopical, Oriental and Palaearctic Regions.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Queensland: NE coastal
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands

Distribution References

Benesh, B. 1960. Lucanidae. pp. 1-178 in Hincks, W.D. (ed.). Coleopterorum Catalogus Supplementa. Gravenhage : W. Junk Part 8. [62]

General References

Reid, C. 2019. 26. Lucanidae Latreille, 1804. pp.391-416 in Ślipiński, A. & Lawrence, J.F. Australian Beetles. Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga (part). Australia : CSIRO Publishing Vol. 2 1, pp.784. [411-412]

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020	POLYPHAGA	30-Apr-2020	MODIFIED	Max Beatson
		12-Feb-2010	(import)

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