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Tribe Lucanini

Representative Images

Lucanus capreolus - male - female Reddish-brown Stag Beetle - Lucanus capreolus - female 19may2012-col1 - Dorcus parallelus Beetle - Lucanus capreolus right side venter, reddish brown stag beetle - Lucanus capreolus - male Dorcus parallelus Lucanus capreolus Lucanus placidus - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea
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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