Rhantus papuanus Balfour-Browne, 1939
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1919
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
This species may have been rediscovered:
"A species which was believed to be extinct due to habitat destruction and was for a long time only known from the holotype collected in 1919. It was recently rediscovered in the Sarauwaget Range, NW tip of the Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea. And is probably also endemic to the Sarauwaget Range."
Source: http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=redisvoeredinsects&action=display&thread=13273
However no source is cited for this claim and so it shall remain in the extinct category until a corroborating source can be tracked down.
Distribution
Papua New Guinea
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Balfour-Browne, Jack. (1939). On a new species of Rantus. Arbeiten über morphologische und taxonomische Entomologie 6 136-139.
Other references:
Anonymous. (2020). A register of extinct beetles. Latissimus 45: 26-28.
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Balke, Michael. (1993). Taxonomische Revision der pazifischen, australischen und indonesischen Arten der Gattung Rhantus DEJEAN, 1833 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). – Koleopterol. Rundsch. 63: 39-84.
Balke, Michael. (2001). Biogeography and classification of New Guinea Colymbetini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Invertebr. Taxon. 15(2): 259-275.
Balke, Michael, Kinibel, Andrew and Sagata, Katayo. (2007). Rhantus elisabethae sp. n. - a new diving beetle from Papua New Guinean highlands. Mitt. Münch. Ent. Ges. 97: 17-21.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996). Rhantus papuanus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 25 August 2012.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 1996. Rhantus papuanus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T19462A8894739. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T19462A8894739.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.