Species

BackScobicia barbifrons (Wollaston, 1864)

Scobicia barbifrons (Wollaston, 1864)

  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Arthropoda
  • Class: Insecta
  • Order: Coleoptera
  • Family: Bostrichidae
LC Least Concern
IUCN Red List Status:

Countries of Occurrence:
Spain - Canaries

Archipelago(s):
Canaries

Assessor/s:
Nardi, G. & Mico, E.

Reviewer/s:
Alexander, K. & Nieto, A.

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Assessment Rationale:

European regional assessment: listed as Least Concern because although the species has a relatively small range and there is no information on the population size or  trends, it is a polyphagous species not dependent on wood of large diameter (rather the opposite) and can tolerate modified habitats, thus making it unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

EU 27 regional assessment: listed as Least Concern because although the species has a relatively small range and there is no information on the population size or  trends, it is a polyphagous species not dependent on wood of large diameter (rather the opposite) and can tolerate modified habitats, thus making it unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

Geographic Range:

This species only occurs in the Spanish archipelago, the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean.

Regions:
Spain - Canaries
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Biogeographic Realms:
Paleartic
Presence:
Extant
Origin:
Endemic Canaries
Seasonality:
Resident

Population:

In the Canary Islands, the species is recorded from all the islands except for Lanzarote (Machado and Oromi 2000).The population size and trends are unknown, but the species is not restricted to certain habitat types, and perhaps is common at least in some of the islands (Zoological Museum Lund holds 120 specimens).

Habitat and Ecology

This is an obligate saproxylic species. It has been reared from dead branches of Launaea spinosa, a shrub, growing in near-coast habitats (Israelson 1974). It has also been reared from deadwood of Ficus carica (Lesne, 1904) and, in Gran Canaria, from dead branches of Vitis vinifera (Lesne, 1905). Probably, these are only three of a variety of potential hosts.

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