| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANIMALIA | ARTHROPODA | INSECTA | COLEOPTERA | CARABIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Mecodema punctellum |
| Species Authority: | Broun, 1921 |
| Red List Category & Criteria: | Extinct ver 2.3 | |||
| Year Assessed: | 1996 | |||
| Annotations: |
Needs updating
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| Assessor/s | World Conservation Monitoring Centre | |||
| History: |
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| Range Description: | Mecodema punctellum is known only from Stephens Island, New Zealand. |
| Countries: |
Regionally extinct:
New Zealand
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| Population: | The species has not been seen since 1931 (Gibbs 1999) despite searches in 1961 (P. Johns, pers. comm. 1999), 1971, 1974/5, 1976, 1981, 1990 (Gibbs and Allen 1990) and 1996. D’Urville Island was searched in 1997 without success (I. Millar, pers. comm. 2000).It is now believed to be extinct. |
| Habitat and Ecology: | A large, lightless, black ground beetle, 38.5 mm long and 11.7 mm wide (Britton 1949). Habitat unknown. Possibly sheltered under large logs (McGuinness 2001). |
| Systems: | Terrestrial |
| Major Threat(s): | Possibly habitat loss led to the extinction of this species. No large logs are left on Stephen’s Island (J.I. Townsend, pers. comm. 1999). |
| Citation: | World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Mecodema punctellum. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2010. |
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