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Lissotes menalcas Westwood, 1855 (Mount Mangana stag-beetle)

Basis for Tasmanian occurrence
Classification
Order: Coleoptera

Suborder: Polyphaga

Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea

Family: Lucanidae

Subfamily: Lucaninae

Morphology
Typical length (mm): 24
Flightedness: functionally flightless

Source literature on morphology and taxonomy (*primary taxonomic source, where identified):
Hangay, G. & de Keyzer, R. (2017). A guide to stag beetles of Australia. Clayton, VIC: CSIRO publishing, 245 pp.
*Westwood, J.O. (1855). Description of some new species of exotic Lucanidae. Trans. Roy. Entom. Soc. Lond. (new series) 3: 197-221.

Ecology
Assumed larval feeding: wood-feeder
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic

Ecological attributes: — Associated with brown rot in inner heartwood (Wardlaw et al., 2009).

Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Emergence trapping from log of Eucalyptus obliqua — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Pitfall trapping.

Source ecological literature:
Grove, S.J. (2009a). A decade of deadwoodology at Warra. Tas. Nat. 131: 25-35.
Grove, S.J. (2009b). Beetles and fuelwood harvesting: a retrospective study from Tasmania’s southern forests. Tasforests 18: 77-99.
Wardlaw, T.J. et al. (2009). The uniqueness of habitats in old eucalypts: contrasting wood-decay fungi and saproxylic beetles of young and old eucalypts.Tasforests 18: 19-32
Baker, S.C. (2000). Forest litter beetles and their habitat: a comparison of forest regenerated by wildfire and logging practices. Hons. thesis, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.
Grove, S.J. & Meggs, J.M. (2003). Coarse woody debris biodiversity and management: a review with particular reference to Tasmanian wet eucalypt forests. Aust. For. 66: 258-272.
Grove, S.J. et al. (2002). A review of biodiversity conservation issues relating to coarse woody debris management in the wet eucalypt production forests of Tasmania. Hobart: Forestry Tasmania.
Meggs, J.M. & Taylor, R.J. (1999). Distribution and conservation status of the Mt Mangana stag beetle, Lissotes menalcas (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas. 133 (1): 23-28.
Meggs, J.M. (2003). Threatened stag beetles in Tasmania’s production forests: single-species studies contributing to biodiversity conservation. Msc thesis, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart, 122 pages.
Taylor, R.J. (1990). Occurrence of log-dwelling invertebrates in regeneration and oldgrowth wet sclerophyll forest in southern Tasmania. Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas. 124: 27-34.
Yee, M. (2005). The ecology and habitat requirements of saproxylic beetles native to Tasmanian wet eucalypt forests: potential impacts of commercial forestry practices. PhD thesis, Univ. of Tasmania, Hobart.

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