Stag beetles
Male Lamprima aurata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Superfamily:	Scarabaeoidea
Family:	Lucanidae Latreille, 1804
Subfamilies
Aesalinae Lampriminae Lucaninae Syndesinae

[edit] Taxonomy

See Taxonomy of Lucanidae Currently the only means of identification of world species is the excellently illustrated text by Mizumuma, T. and S. Nagai. 1994. The Lucanid Beetles of the World. Mushi-sha, Tokyo. 337 pp. based on the stll very useful work Catalogue illustré des lucanides du globe in Encyclopédie Entomologique (series A 27: 1-223) by Robert Didier and Eugene Seguy.

Cacostomus squamosus

Dorcus curvidens

Dorcus parallelipipedus

Lamprima adolphinae

Lucanus cervus Male

Lucanus maculifemoratus

Lucanus swinhoei

Odontolabis cuvera

Odontolabis femoralis

Prosopocoilus astacoides

Prosopocoilus giraffa

Rhaetulus crenatus

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikispecies has information related to: Lucanidae

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Lucanidar

• Flickr Images
• Stag beetle helpline Research site containing lots of information on the stag beetle as well as a monitoring form and information on current conservation schemes.
• M.J. Paulsen. "Annotated Checklist of the New World Lucanidae". http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Scarabaeoidea/Lucanidae/Lucanidae-Catalog/LucanidaeC.htm.  Checklist of New World stag beetles with links to pages with additional information and images.
• Taiwanese picture gallery
• Toma Libich. "Goliathus.com: gallery of Lucanidae". http://www.goliathus.com/en/en-lucanidae.html. 
• "Gallery of Lucanidae". http://www.goliathus.cz/en/museum-lucanidae-2.html. 
• J M Maes. "Biodiversity: section on Lucanidae with a world catalogue and a world bibliography". http://www.bio-nica.info. 
• Asahinet Stag beetles on postage stamps and species illustrations.
• Lucanes du Monde Image rich French blog
• Images (portal)
• TOL
• The Lucanid (Stag) Beetles of the World Extra detailed specimen photobook 2009