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 L. Wu et al. 2022
See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Cai et al. 2022, Krell 2000, Lawrence and Newton 1995, Nikolajev 2007 and Qi et al. 2022
Sister taxa: Aesalinae, Ceruchitinae, Cretolucanus, Dorcasoides, Electraesalopsis, Lampriminae, Litholampriminae, Paleognathus, Paralucaninae, Prosinodendron, Protolucaninae, Syndesinae, Syndesus
Subtaxa: Anisoodontus Chiasognathini Lucanini Lucanus fossilis Miocenidorcus Platycerini Platycerus sepultus Prolucanus
Type: Lucanus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
• Miocene of France (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of China (1), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 12 collections including 14 occurrences