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Issue: Vol. 3887 No. 4: 26 Nov. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-11-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3887.4.2
Page range: 422–436
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 3

A checklist of stag beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae) from Iran

Entomology Department, Natural History Museum, Zoological Section La Specola, via Romana 17, 50125 Firenze, Italy.
Department of Plant Protection, Shahre Rey Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Biowissenschaften, Entomologie, Naturhistorisches Museum, Augustinergasse 2, CH - 4051 Basel, Switzerland.
Natural History Museum, Corso Venezia 55, 20121 Milano, Italy.
Coleoptera Lucanidae synonymy checklist identification key Iran

Abstract

An updated checklist of the Lucanidae (Coleoptera) from Iran is given. New locality records are listed and some dubious distributional records are discussed. Dorcus vavrai Nonfried, 1905 is placed in synonymy with Dorcus peyronis Reiche and Saulcy, 1856 (new synonymy) The female of Lucanus xerxes Král, 2004 is described. A key for the identification of the Iranian stag beetle species is also provided and all the species are figured.