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Classification ........Platyceroides aeneus (Van Dyke, 1928)
 

Platycerus aeneus Van Dyke, 1928: 109. (orig. comb.)

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Scarabaeoidea
Lucanidae
Lucaninae
 
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.....P. aeneus (Van Dyke), male (left) and female (right).
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Photos by M.J. Paulsen
Distribution of P. aeneus.
   
 

Distribution:

 

Benesh, B. 1946. A systematic revision of the Holarctic genus Platycerus Geoffroy (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63: 139-203. [known from the Sierra Nevadas of California]

 
 
 

Van Dyke, E.C. 1928. Notes and descriptions of new species of Lucanidae and Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from western North America. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 4: 105-113.

 
 
   
   
   
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