Calosoma burchellii (Waterhouse, 1842)
Giant ground beetle, Burchell's Giant ground beetle
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonyms: Aplothorax burchellii Waterhouse, 1842; Aplothorax burchelli Waterhouse, 1842 [orth. error used by many authors]; Haplothorax Burchellii Waterhouse, 1842 [used by Wollaston, 1877:1]; Calosoma burchellii (Waterhouse, 1841) [incorrect year; used by Toussaint et al., 2021]
Transferred to the genus Calosoma by (Toussaint et al., 2021).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 1967
Distribution
St. Helena
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Waterhouse, G. R. (1842). Descriptions of a sub-genus of coleopterous insects closely allied to the genus Carabus. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3: 207-209.
Other references:
America, S. (1999). St Helena. Biodiversity: the UK Overseas Territories, 101.
Ashmole, Philip, and, Ashmole, Myrtle. (2004a). The invertebrates of Prosperous Bay Plain, St Helena: A survey, by Philip and Myrtle Ashmole, September – December 2003. Commissioned by the St Helena Government and financed by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Peebles, Scotland: Kidston Mill.
Ashmole, Philip, and, Ashmole, Myrtle. (2004b). Guide to Invertebrates of Prosperous Bay Plain, St Helena and Illustrated account of species found on the Eastern Arid Area (EAA), including Prosperous Bay Plain, Holdfast Tom and Horse Point Plain. Peebles, Scotland: Kidston Mill. 92 pp. [automatic download]
Pryce, David. (2019). David Pryce Invertebrate Surveys: Prosperous Bay Plain Invertebrate Survey 2018-19. Unpublished report.
Raupach, Michael J. (2018). Endless forms most beautiful – Ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) on postal stamps. Angewandte Carabidologie 12: 29-35.
Sota, Teiji et al. (2020). The origin of the giant ground beetle Aplothorax burchelli on St Helena Island. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 131(1): 50-60. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa093
Toussaint, Emmanuel F. A. et al. (2021). HyRAD-X Exome Capture Museomics Unravels Giant Ground Beetle Evolution. Genome Biology and Evolution 13(7): evab112. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab112
Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. (1877). Coleoptera Sancta-Helenae. London: John van Voorst.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhm_beetle_id/5496970362/
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/1871/giant-ground-beetle-aplothorax-burchelli