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Crimean subspecies Lucanus cervus: does it exist?

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DYNASTES, 21.06.2013 20:06

Colleagues, who has adequate and up-to-date information about valid subspecies of the deer beetle Lucanus cervus ?

This year I caught a male f. media in Yalta. According to the Zinovsky website, the subspecies Lucanus cervus tauricus (Motschulsky, 1845) lives in the Crimea, the Caucasus, the Balkan Peninsula, France and Italy.Its beetles are distinguished by a 5-segmented club of antennae, while the nominative has 4 - segmented ones. However, my sample from Yalta has a 4-pronged mace of antennae, like the nominative.

Maybe this is a nominate subspecies, but there is no subspecies of tauricus at all? Does this subspecies really live in Crimea?

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22.06.2013 15:59, GlebSinon

This was discussed in Lucanus cervus and Other Beetles, like in Rogachs. So we didn't really come to anything.
It is quite possible that someone has information on this issue. confused.gif

This post was edited by GlebSinon - 23.06.2013 12: 32

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