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Britain's best beetle
Coleoptera / Lucanidae
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family:
Large size beetle, female because it does not have big pincers.
: Scarabaeiformia,
Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea,
Family:
Stag beetles are a group of about 1,200 species of beetle in the family
Family: Lucanidae
Size: 18mm
Distinctive mandibles and other features separate the numerous species of in ...
A medium-sized female stag beetle at about 14mm in length. It's exoskeleton ...
An Australian beetle Syndesus cornutus has been in NZ since 1961. Typical ...
Lucanus maculifemoratus is a beetle of the Family
Dorcus is a genus of the family Lucanidae ...
Large (30 mm), dark brown stag beetle. Sexually dimorphic species: large ...
This 13 mm long beetle was a deep reddish-brown. The elytra were strongly ...
This is a female Stag Beetle that i found on the wall of my house. This beetle ...
This is a male Stag Beetle that i found on the wall of my house. This beetle is ...
These can vary from copper-gold to a deep blue colour. This one is female and ...
Large beetle, males with large mandibles (jaws) used in fighting one another ...
A male Prosopocoilus Stag Beetle attracted to the lights of the dining hall one ...
About 2.4cm long. Metallic blue, with red head and pointy protruding mandibles; ...
A dead stag beetle. Males have broad pincers that can be painful, but seldom ...
The Golden Stag Beetle, Lamprima aurata is a species of beetle in the Family ...
Hence the name, this is a reddish-brown stag beetle. They can grow up to 3.5 ...
Lucanidae. The species name "capreolus" is ...
The best-known species of stag beetle in the West (family
A flat beetle with an overall rectangular body, small pinchers, and a ton of ...
Is the best-known species of stag beetle in the West (family
A stag beetle has large mandibles in the male. This genus is highly polished. ...
Lucanus cervus is the best-known species of stag beetle in the West (family ...
Lucanus cervus is the best-known species of stag beetle (family
They are not harmful to humans. Adult males can vary in size from 35mm – 75mm ...
A large shiny beetle looking like a cross between a Christmas Beetle and a ...
Thunberg, 1806: 199. L. muticus Thunberg, 1806: 205. As with most of the ...