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Living in old and rotten wood
Dorcus is a genus of the family Lucanidae ...
Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Coleoptera Family: ...
Female
I believe this is a female stag beetle as its jaws were fairly small.
small stag beetle. 22-30mm.
Medium size beetle 3 cm in length, black and with short antennas, bulky body. ...
My first Stag beetle spotting! On the Christmas day!
My son finds these beetles at the playground. The substrate is wood chips. ...
Matte black beetle, quite large (3 or 4 cm). Very large mandibles or horns and ...
Males measure 32.0-111.3 mm including mandibles; females 36.5-54 mm.
Dorcus parallelipipedus, the lesser stag ...
Both sexes resemble the female stag beetle (Lucanus cervus), though they are a ...
One of two stag beetles found in the UK, this one is smaller (rarely bigger ...