Lissotes rudis (a species of stag-beetle)
Basis for Tasmanian occurrence
Classification
Suborder: Polyphaga
Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea
Family: Lucanidae
Subfamily: Lucaninae
Morphology
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.
Ecology
Association with dead wood or old trees: obligately saproxylic
Ecological attributes: — Able to breed in windrows in first-rotation plantations (Bashford, 1990b).
Collection method(s) for TMAG material: — Hand collection (substrate not specified) — Hand collection from under log of Eucalyptus sp. — Pitfall trapping.
Source ecological literature:
Bashford, R. (1990b). The dispersal of ground beetles into different aged eucalypt plantations in north-eastern Tasmania. 2 (1): 43-51.
Grove, S.J. & Yaxley, B. (2005). Wildlife habitat strips and native forest ground-active beetle assemblages in plantation nodes in northeast Tasmania. Aust. J. Entom. 44 (4): 331-343.
