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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles (Scarabaeoidea) » Stag Beetles (Lucanidae) » Lucaninae » Lucanini » Lucanus

Genus Lucanus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
stag beetle - Lucanus capreolus - male large beetle - Lucanus capreolus Cottonwood Stag Beetle - Lucanus mazama Giant Stag Beetle (Lucanus elephus) - Lucanus elaphus - female Beetle - Lucanus elaphus Giant Stag Beetle - Lucanus elaphus - male Cottonwood Stag Beetles - Lucanus mazama - male - female Cottonwood Stag Beetle - Lucanus mazama - Lucanus mazama
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles)
Family Lucanidae (Stag Beetles)
Subfamily Lucaninae
Tribe Lucanini
Genus Lucanus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pseudolucanus Hope in Westwood 1845(1)
Explanation of Names
Lucanus Scopoli 1763
From Lucania, an ancient district of southern Italy; Plinius the Elder used this name to describe the stag beetle. Names of European deer species -- Cervus elaphus (the red deer; elk in America), Capreolus capreolus (the roe deer), and Dama dama (the fallow deer) have all been used as specific epithets for various Lucanus species (L. dama has been synonymized with L. capreolus) (Fremlin 2010)
Numbers
4 spp. in our area(1), ~50 total(2)
Range
NA & Eurasia (most spp. in Asia)(2); in our area, 3 spp. are widespread in the eastern half of the US (all 3 range into ON), and one is restricted to sw. US(1)
Works Cited
1.Paulsen M.J. (2013) Annotated checklist of the New World Lucanidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)
2.The Scarabaeoid Beetles of Nebraska
Brett C. Ratcliffe & M.J. Paulsen. 2008. University of Nebraska State Museum, Vol 22, 570 pp.
Contributed by Cotinis on 3 April, 2004 - 9:01am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Bbarnd, Chuck Entz, v belov
Last updated 21 August, 2014 - 1:30pm

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