Insecta - Coleoptera - Lucanidae
Alternative spelling: Lucanides
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: Scarabaeoidea according to Z. H. Qi et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Carpenter 1992, Krell 2000, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Nikolajev 2007 and Wappler 2003
Sister taxa: Aliscarabaeus, Alloioscarabaeidae, Ateuchites, Belohinidae, Bolboceratidae, Ceafornotensis, Copris subterraneus, Cretaclopus, Cretonitis, Diphyllostomatidae, Geotrupidae, Geotrupoides, Glaphyridae, Glaresidae, Gymnopleurus deperditus, Holcorobeini, Holcorobeus, Hongscarabaeus, Hybosoridae, Hybosorites, Juraclopus, Mahengea, Mesaclopus, Mesoscarabaeus, Mongolrobeus, Ochodaeidae, Onthophagus urusheeri, Opiselleipon, Passalidae, Passalopalpidae, Pleocomidae, Prionocephale, Prophaenognatha, Scarabaeidae, Scelocopris, Septiventeridae, Trogidae
Subtaxa: Aesalinae Ceruchitinae Cretolucanus Dorcasoides Electraesalopsis Lampriminae Litholampriminae Lucaninae Paleognathus Paralucaninae Prosinodendron Protolucaninae Syndesinae Syndesus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1), France (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (2)
• Eocene of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (4), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of China (8), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (4), the Russian Federation (3)
• Jurassic of China (1), Mongolia (1)
Total: 36 collections including 48 occurrences