New Zealand Journal of Zoology abstracts

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Two new genera of New Zealand stag beetles previously treated as Dorcus MacLeay and Lissotes Westwood (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)

BEVERLEY A. HOLLOWAY

7 Tropicana Drive
Mt Roskill
Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract  The New Zealand lucanids previously placed in Dorcus MacLeay, 1819 are transferred to Geodorcus new genus: type-species G. novaezealandiae (Hope, 1845), and those previously placed in Lissotes Westwood, 1855 are transferred to Paralissotes new genus: type-species P. reticulatus (Westwood, 1844).

Keywords  Coleoptera; Lucanidae; stag beetles; Geodorcus new genus; Paralissotes new genus

Received 6 June 1995; accepted 24 August 1995

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