Mecodema punctellum

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	ARTHROPODA	INSECTA	COLEOPTERA	CARABIDAE

Scientific Name:	Mecodema punctellum
Species Authority:	Broun, 1921

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:

Extinct ver 2.3

Year Assessed:

1996

Annotations:

Needs updating

Assessor/s:

World Conservation Monitoring Centre

History:

1994

–

Extinct (Groombridge 1994)

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	Mecodema punctellum is known only from Stephens Island, New Zealand.
Countries:	Regionally extinct: New Zealand

Population [top]

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.

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 [top]

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

Threats [top]

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).

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).

Bibliography [top]

	Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland. Britton, E.B. 1949. The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77: 533-581. Gibbs, G.W. 1999. Four new species of giant weta, Deinacrida (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae: Deinacridinae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 29(4): 307-324. Gibbs, G.W. and Allen, J. 1990. Conservation status of Stephens Island invertebrates. Contract report, Section B, File SC0147. Department of Conservation, Wellington. Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. McGuinness, C.A. 2001. The Conservation Requirements of New Zealand’s Nationally Threatened Invertebrates. Threatened Species occasional publication. 20. New Zealand Department of Conservation, Biodiversity Recovery Unit, Wellington, New Zealand. Townsend, J.I. 1997. Checklist of Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast Carabidae: an annotated list of Carabidae recorded from Nelson/Marlborough and West Coast conservancies. Nelson/ Marlborough Conservancy Occasional Publication No. 29, Department of Conservation, Nelson.

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland.

Britton, E.B. 1949. The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 77: 533-581.

Gibbs, G.W. 1999. Four new species of giant weta, Deinacrida (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae: Deinacridinae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 29(4): 307-324.

Gibbs, G.W. and Allen, J. 1990. Conservation status of Stephens Island invertebrates. Contract report, Section B, File SC0147. Department of Conservation, Wellington.

Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

McGuinness, C.A. 2001. The Conservation Requirements of New Zealand’s Nationally Threatened Invertebrates. Threatened Species occasional publication. 20. New Zealand Department of Conservation, Biodiversity Recovery Unit, Wellington, New Zealand.

Townsend, J.I. 1997. Checklist of Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast Carabidae: an annotated list of Carabidae recorded from Nelson/Marlborough and West Coast conservancies. Nelson/ Marlborough Conservancy Occasional Publication No. 29, Department of Conservation, Nelson.

Citation:	World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. Mecodema punctellum. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 10 February 2012.
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