Prosopocoilus gracilis (Saunders)

Zhong, Fang, Bai, Ming, Ge, Yang & Wan, Xia, 2014, Taxonomic revision of Prosopocoilus gracilis (Saunders, 1854) and its allied species from China (Coleoptera: Lucanidae), Zoological Systematics 39 (1), pp. 136-148 : 137-138

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs20140102

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A44423F5-262D-4CCC-8CCB-BD695EEA0E89

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5076308

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B941DC62-1379-FFCE-4C96-F8FFC5D7FE7F

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Prosopocoilus gracilis (Saunders)
status

 

Key to large males of Prosopocoilus gracilis (Saunders) View in CoL and its allied species from China.

1. Mandible curved strongly, longer than the total length of head and pronotum…….….................................................................………2

Mandible almost straight, no longer than the total length of head and pronotum......................................................................................4

2. Mandible with a sub-apical tooth near the apex.….….……...…..…..……….……......................................................................……...3 Mandible without a sub-apical tooth near the apex………………………..............................................................………….... P. gracilis View in CoL

3. A large tooth close to basal edge of mandible....................................................................................................................... P. piceipennis

A large tooth close to front edge of mandible.....................................................….…..............................................................… P. similis View in CoL

4. The basal tooth rectangle, the apex bifurcated; the tooth on the ventral margin of paramere long and sharp...................... P. crenulidens

The basal tooth triangular, the apex sharp; the tooth on the ventral margin of paramere short and expanded…….....…... P.denticulatus View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Lucanidae

Genus

Prosopocoilus

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