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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

Tribe Lucanini

Classification · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Lucanus capreolus - female Elephant Stag Beetle (Lucanus elaphus) - Lucanus elaphus - male Stagg Beetle - Lucanus mazama Stag Beetle - Lucanus placidus - female Reddish-brown Stag Beetle (Lucanus capreolus)? - Lucanus capreolus Lucanus capreolus - Lucanus capreolus Big black beetle - Lucanus capreolus Unknown beetle - Lucanus capreolus
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
Numbers
2 genera in the New World(1)
Range
in the New World, restricted to NA; both genera of our fauna are Holarctic (Lucanus also Oriental) and much more diverse in the Old World(1)
Works Cited
1.Paulsen M.J. (2013) Annotated checklist of the New World Lucanidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)
Contributed by v belov on 7 August, 2011 - 12:48am
Last updated 7 August, 2011 - 5:27am

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