Insecta - Coleoptera - Lucanidae
Synonym: Penichrolucaninae Arrow 1950
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1804. Tableau méthodique des insectes. Nouveau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle, Appliquée aux Arts, Principalement à l'Agriculture et à l'Economie Rurale et Domestique 24:129-200
Parent taxon: Lucanidae according to P. G. Allsopp and P. Schoolmeesters 2026
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Krell 2000, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Nikolajev 2007, Qi et al. 2022 and Wu et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Aesalinae, Ceruchitinae, Cretolucanus, Lampriminae, Litholampriminae, Paralucaninae, Protolucaninae, Syndesinae
Subtaxa: Anisoodontus Chiasognathini Dicholucanus Dorcini Figulini Lucanini Lucanus fossilis Platycerini Platycerus sepultus Prolucanus Sclerostomini
Type: Lucanus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
• Turolian of France (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Czechia (1), Germany (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of China (1), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 14 collections including 17 occurrences