Platycerus primigenius Weise, 1960

Bartolozzi, Luca, Ghahari, Hassan, Sprecher-Uebersax, Eva & Zilioli, Michele, 2014, A checklist of stag beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 3887 (3), pp. 422-436 : 428-429

Platycerus primigenius Weise, 1960

( Figs. 14–15 )

Platycerus primigenius Weise, 1960: 139 .

Distribution. Caucasus ( Bartolozzi & Sprecher-Uebersax 2006); Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran ( Imura 2010).

Distribution in Iran. Iran (without precise locality) ( Imura 2010).

Remarks. The species was not recorded for Iran by Bartolozzi & Sprecher-Uebersax (2006) but was reported for the country by Imura (2010), without precise locality. Iablokov-Khnzorian (1967) and Baraud (1993) consider this species to be a synonym of P. caraboides . The taxonomy of the Caucasian Platycerus species seems still rather confused and a revision is necessary.

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 15. 7 — Aesalus ulanowskii (male), 8 — Aesalus ulanowskii (female), 9 — Sinodendron persicum (male), 10 — Sinodendron persicum (female), 11 — Sinodendron persicum (male, lateral), 12 — Platycerus caraboides caraboides (male), 13 — Platycerus caraboides caraboides (female), 14 — Platycerus primigenius (male), 15 — Platycerus primigenius (female).