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Macrocrates Burmeister, 1847
.....Macrocrates Burmeister, 1847: 381 (orig cit.)

Superfamily.....
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Scarabaeoidea
Lucanidae
Lucaninae
 
Lucaninae Genera

Aegognathus
Altitatiayus
Andinolucanus
Arnaudius
Apterocyclus
Apterodorcus
Auxicerus
Brasilucanus
Caenolethrus
Cantharolethrus
Casignetus
Charagmophorus
Chiasognathus
Chileistomus
Dorcus
Erichius
Incadorcus
Leptinopterus
Lucanus
Macrocrates
Metadorcinus
Metadorcus
Montesinus
Onorelucanus
Platyceroides
Platycerus
Pycnosiphorus
Sclerostomulus
Sclerostomus
Scortizus
Sphaenognathus
Zikanius

 

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M. australis Luederwaldt, habitus (male).
Photo by P. Grossi.
Distribution of
Macrocrates
species.
M. australis Luederwaldt, lateral view (male).
Photo by P. Grossi.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 

Distribution: Neotropical South America: southeastern Brazil.

 

Revision or Synopsis:

 

Fujii, T. 2012. Two new species of the genus Macrocrates (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) from South Brazil. Elytra, Tokyo, New Series 2: 243-255.

 
 

Luederwaldt, H., 1935. Monographia dos lucanideos brasileiros. Revista do Museu Paulista. 19: 447-574 + 4 plates.

 
 
Weinreich, E., 1963. Revision südamerikanischer Lucanidae (Ins. Col.), III. Die Gattungen Pholidotus, Aegognathus, Macrocrates, Auxicerus, und Ergänzungen zu Metadorcus, Scortizus, Beneshius, und Sclerostomus. Senckenbergiana Biologica 44: 183-212.
 
 
 
 

Composition: 4 species.

 

 

 

Species profiles: (pages under construction)

M. australis Luederwaldt
M. bucephalus (Westwood)
M. galantorum Fujii

M. invenireus Fujii

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
   
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