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The Platycerus (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) of California, with the recognition of Platycerus cribripennis Van Dyke as a valid species

open access: yesZooKeys, 2009
The status of Platycerus cribripennis Van Dyke, generally treated as a synonym of P. marginalis Casey, has been unclear. Here we recognize and redescribe P.
M.J. Paulsen, Michael Caterino
doaj   +1 more source

Body and mandible size as key factors in male contest outcomes, but no evidence of assessment models in Helm’s stag beetles

open access: yesNew Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 52, Issue 5, Page 704-715, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Males of many species compete with one another, allowing access to mating opportunities. During combat, contestants are constantly making decisions, e.g. to continue competing or retreat, based on the relative difference in resource holding potential (RHP) or some internal threshold.
Luna Grey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating the ecological drivers of insect abundance when detection is imperfect

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, Volume 94, Issue 12, Page 2641-2654, December 2025.
Using a field‐based mark–recapture approach, the authors demonstrate that habitat quality can simultaneously influence insect abundance and detection. Simulation also showed that prioritizing increased sampling intensity over adding more study sites can improve accuracy of standard modelling approaches including GLMs or GLMMs, which do not account for ...
Jens Ulrich, Risa D. Sargent
wiley   +1 more source

Symbiotic yeasts from the mycangium, larval gut and woody substrate of an African stag beetle Xiphodontus antilope (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Female stag beetles (Lucanidae) possess internal mycangia to maintain microbial cultures. Yeasts from these mycangia may help with larval nutrition in nutrient poor woody substrates, but only a few Lucanidae taxa have been studied and all reports ...
Roets, Francois, Oberlander, Kenneth C.
core   +1 more source

Taxonomic study on the subspecies of Cyclommatus metallifer (Boisduval, 1835) from Indonesia (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)

open access: yesJournal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity, 2017
The lucanid beetles of the subspecies of Cyclommatus metallifer from Indonesia are revised here. Five subspecies are known from Indonesia. Among them, Cyclommatus metallifer otanii Mizunuma and Nagai was confirmed to be a synonym of Cyclommatus ...
Eunjoong Kim   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A new fossil Lucanidae subfamily (Coleoptera) from the Mesozoic of China [PDF]

open access: yesКавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2015
Litholamprima longimana Nikolajev et Ren, gen. et sp. n. of the family Lucanidae is described from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation. Fossils were collected from Chaomidian Village, Liaoning Province, China.
G.V. Nikolajev, D. Ren
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Description d'un Neolucanus nouveau du Yunnan [Col. Lucanidae]

open access: yes, 1914
Boileau Henry. Description d'un Neolucanus nouveau du Yunnan [Col. Lucanidae]. In: Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, volume 19 (2),1914. pp.
Boileau, Henry
core   +1 more source

Colombian chiasognathini: redescription and additions to the distribution of Sphaenognathus rotundatus Lacroix and Sphaenognathus prionoides Buquet (COLEOPTERA: LUCANIDAE) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
En Colombia, los escarabajos del género Sphaenognathus (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Chiasognathini) conforman un linaje eminentemente tropandino, de selvas frías, razón por la cual su distribución exhibe un patrón insular muy complejo, poco ...
Pardo Locarno, Luis Carlos   +1 more
core   +3 more sources

A catalog of the types of Geotrupidae, Glaresidae, Hybosoridae, Lucanidae and Trogidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) deposited in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires Catálogo de los tipos de Geotrupidae, Glaresidae, Hybosoridae, Lucanidae y Trogidae (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) depositados en el Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires

open access: yesRevista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, 2010
A catalog of the types, all current categories, of Geotrupidae, Glaresidae, Hybosoridae, Lucanidae and Trogidae, housed in this Museum, is given; it comprises the types of 40 names; 39 (98%) of them are here represented by name-bearing types («primary ...
Axel O. Bachmann   +2 more
doaj  

A review of the primary types of the Hawaiian stag beetle genus Apterocyclus Waterhouse (Coleoptera, Lucanidae, Lucaninae), with the description of a new species

open access: yesZooKeys, 2014
The species of the Hawaiian stag beetle genus Apterocyclus Waterhouse (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) are reviewed following an examination of all primary types.
M.J. Paulsen, David Hawks
doaj   +1 more source

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