ANIMALIA / ARTHROPODA / INSECTA / COLEOPTERA / LUCANIDAE / COLOPHON / THUNBERGI

Colophon thunbergi (Boheman, 1851)
endemic Appendix III Critically endangered

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Residence status

Occurrence in African countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, or alien in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature.

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BOT

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LES

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NW

Absent

Indigenous

Endemic

Naturalised

Invasive

Names and Sources

No known common names.

Classification

KINGDOM Animalia

PHYLUM Arthropoda

CLASS Insecta

ORDER Coleoptera

FAMILY Lucanidae

GENUS Colophon

SPECIES thunbergi

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Uses

The species are highly prized by collectors because of their putative rarity, and the recent CITES-listing has clearly increased their black-market value (Jacobs et al., 2015).

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Observation records

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1855

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Descriptions of some new species of exotic Lucanidae.

Westwood, . 1855. Descriptions of some new species of exotic Lucanidae. Vol. 3 pp.197-221.

2015

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Taxonomy of Colophon Gray (Coleoptera: Lucanidae): new species and a status change

Jacobs, Carmen Tina, Scholtz, Clarke, Strümpher, Werner Petrus. 2015. Taxonomy of Colophon Gray (Coleoptera: Lucanidae): new species and a status change Vol. 4057(1) pp.135.

1988

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Evidence for the low-altitude origin of the Cape Mountain Biome derived from the systematic revision of the genus Colophon Gray (Coleoptera, Lucanidae).

Endrody-Younga, . 1988. Evidence for the low-altitude origin of the Cape Mountain Biome derived from the systematic revision of the genus Colophon Gray (Coleoptera, Lucanidae). Vol. 96(9) pp.359 – 424.

2006

BOOK

Notes on the Habitat and Adult Behaviour of Three Red-Listed Colophon spp. (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa

Owen, R., Geertsema, H. 2006. Notes on the Habitat and Adult Behaviour of Three Red-Listed Colophon spp. (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa Vol. 11(1) pp.43–46.