Geodorcus novaezealandiae

Taxonavigation Edit

Taxonavigation: Scarabaeoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Geodorcus novaezealandiae (Hope, 1845: 25)

Original genus: Lucanus Scopoli, 1763
Original status: valid species
Primary type: lectotype
- Fixation: designated by Holloway, 2007: 94
- Type kind: [adult] female
- Repository: HDOU
Type locality: 'Nova Zealandia'

Dorcus abditus Broun, 1881: 673
Original genus: Dorcus MacLeay, 1819
Original status: valid species
Primary type: lectotype
- Fixation: designated by Holloway, 2007: 94
- Type kind: [adult] male
- Repository: BMNH
Type locality: 'near Wellington'
Dorcus punctulatus White, 1846: 9
Original genus: Dorcus MacLeay, 1819
Original status: valid species
Primary type: lectotype
- Fixation: designated by Holloway, 2007: 94
- Type kind: [adult] male
- Repository: BMNH
Type locality: 'New Zealand (Wellington)'
Sclerostomus caviceps Westwood, 1855: 212
Original genus: Sclerostomus Burmeister, 1847
Original status: valid species
Primary type: lectotype
- Fixation: designated by Holloway, 2007: 94
- Type kind: [adult] male
- Repository: HDOU
Type locality: 'Nova Zealandia'

Broun, T. 1881. Manual of the New Zealand Coleoptera. Part II. Pp. 653–744. Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department, Wellington. BHL Reference page.
Holloway, B.A. 2007. Lucanidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Fauna of New Zealand, (61) ISBN 978-0-478-09395-7. Online. Reference page.
Hope, F.W. & Westwood, J.O. 1845. A catalogue of the lucanoid Coleoptera in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope together with descriptions of the new species therein contained. J.C. Bridgewater, London. 31 pp. BUGZ. Reference page.
Westwood, J.O. 1855: Descriptions of some new species of exotic Lucanidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (2) 3: 197-221. BHL Reference page.
White, A. 1846. Insects of New Zealand. Pp. 1–24, plates 1–7 in: Richardson, J. & Gray, J.E. (eds) The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843. Vol. II. Reptiles, fishes, Crustacea, insects, Mollusca. London: E.W. Janson. BHL Reference page.

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