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Lucaninae

Insecta - Coleoptera - Lucanidae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1804Lucaninae Latreille p. 149
1837Platycerus sepultus Germar figs. Pl 7
1913Lucanus fossilis Wickham p. 293 figs. Pl 23, fig 7
1950Penichrolucaninae Arrow p. 233
1995Lucaninae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
1995Penichrolucaninae Lawrence and Newton, Jr.
2000Lucaninae Krell p. 875
2007Lucaninae Nikolajev p. 21
2011Lucaninae Bouchard et al.
2022Lucaninae Cai et al.
2022Lucaninae Qi et al. p. 3
2022Lucaninae Wu et al. p. 2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
Holometabola
Aparaglossata
Neuropteriformia
Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
Mesocoleoptera
Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyLucanidae()
subfamilyLucaninae
subfamilyLucaninae

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subfm. Lucaninae Latreille 1804
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G. †Anisoodontus Wu et al. 2022
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Anisoodontus qizhihaoi Wu et al. 2022
Anisoodontus xiafangyuani Wu et al. 2022
Tr. Lucanini Latreille 1804
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G. Dorcus MacLeay 1819
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Dorcus primigenius Deichmüller 1881
G. Lucanus Scopoli 1763
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Lucanus cervus Linnaeus 1758
G. Penichrolucanus Deyrolle 1863
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Penichrolucanus kabakovi Nikolajev 2010
Invalid names: Figulidae Burmeister 1847 [synonym]
G. †Miocenidorcus Riou 1999
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Tr. Platycerini Mulsant 1842
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G. Platycerus Geoffroy 1762
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Platycerus zherichini Nikolayev 1990
G. †Succiniplatycerus Nikolayev 1990
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G. †Prolucanus Qi et al. 2022
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Prolucanus beipiaoensis Qi et al. 2022
Invalid names: Chiasognathini Burmeister 1847 [empty], Lucanus fossilis Wickham 1913 [nomen dubium], Penichrolucaninae Arrow 1950 [synonym], Platycerus sepultus Germar 1837 [nomen dubium]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Barremian to the top of the Middle Pleistocene or 130.00000 to 0.12900 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 125.45 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Barremian130.0 - 125.45China (Liaoning) Prolucanus beipiaoensis (111725)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Russian Federation (Buryatia) Penichrolucanus kabakovi (118216)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Myanmar Anisoodontus qizhihaoi, Anisoodontus xiafangyuani (225722)
MP 1148.6 - 40.4Germany (Hessen) Dorcus sp. (120798)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Poland Platycerus berendti (109625)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Primorskiy) Platycerus zherichini (123794)
Chadronian37.2 - 33.9USA (Colorado) Lucanus fossilis (124624)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9Czech Republic Dorcus primigenius (138883)
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany Platycerus sepultus (115802)
Turolian8.7 - 5.333France (Ardèche) Miocenidorcus andancensis (156164)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom Dorcus parallelipipedus (168265) Lucanus cervus, Dorcus parallelipipedus (168267)