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Penichrolucanus leveri
Penichrolucanus leveri ARROW, 1938.
Penichrolucanus leveri ARROW, 1938:61, pl. 4.
Benesh, 1960:22; Vulcanu & Pereira, 1961:473; Bacchus, 1978:109; Klausnitzer, 1982:15; Ratcliffe, 1984:65; Bartolozzi, 1989:40; Maes, 1992:42; Araya, Kikuta & Okuma, 1994:151; Bomans, 1994:491; Bomans & Bartolozzi, 1996:220
Penichrolucanus leveri ARROW; Cammaerts & Bomans, 1997:5-7.
New Guinea : Papua : Madang Province : Balek Wildlife Sanctuary, alt. 60 m, 12-IX-1989, primary rainforest, top of a calcareous wall (falaise calcaire), in an old nest of Microcerotermes biroi (1 m x 0.5 m x 0.25 m) at 2 meters high, in a fork of a branch of a living tree (1 male in Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelle, Belgium).
Solomon Is. : Guadalcanal I.--9°37S-160°02E (Mamawa = Mamowa*).
Saproxylophagous, in old nest of Isoptera : Microcerotermes biroi (DESNEUX).
Bibliography.
CAMMAERTS R. & BOMANS H.E. (1997) Quelques Lucanidae de Nouvelle-Guinée dont Penichrolucanus leveri Arrow, une nouvelle espèce de Figulus MacLeay et la larve de Figulus sulcicollis Hope & Westwood (Coleoptera). Bull. Annls. Soc. R. belge Ent., 133:3-20.
TEXT : MAES JEAN-MICHEL
PICTURES : GALANT ALAIN