Lucaninae

{{Short description|Subfamily of beetles}}

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| image_caption = Male specimen of Hexarthrius parryi paradoxus

| taxon = Lucaninae

| authority = Latreille, 1804

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = Many, see text

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The Lucaninae comprise the largest subfamily of the stag beetles (Lucanidae).

Characteristics include partial to complete division of the eyes by a canthus, geniculate antennae, and distinctly separated coxae. The body is typically elongated and slightly flattened.

Genera

References

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  • Brett C. Ratcliffe, "Lucanidae", in Ross H. Arnett Jr. and Michael C. Thomas, American Beetles (CRC Press, 2002), p. 7
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070123103021/http://www.unl.edu/museum/research/entomology/Guide/Scarabaeoidea/Lucanidae/Lucanidae-Catalog/LucanidaeC.htm UNL museum checklist of New World Lucanidae]
  • G. Cassis, W.W.K. Houston, T.A. Weir & B.P. Moore (1992). Updated by A.A. Calder (2002). Coleoptera: Scarabaeoida. [http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/index.html Australian Faunal Directory]. Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra. Viewed 22 November 2007.

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