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Brasilucanus acomus Ratcliffe, 1984.

 

Brasilucanus acomus Ratcliffe, 1984: 63. (orig. comb.)

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Scarabaeoidea
Lucanidae
Lucaninae
 
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Aegognathus
Altitatiayus
Andinolucanus
Arnaudius
Apterocyclus
Apterodorcus
Auxicerus
Brasilucanus
Caenolethrus
Cantharolethrus
Casignetus
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Chileistomus
Dorcus
Erichius
Incadorcus
Leptinopterus
Lucanus
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Metadorcus
Montesinus
Onorelucanus
Platyceroides
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Pycnosiphorus
Sclerostomulus
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Scortizus
Sphaenognathus
Zikanius

 

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B. acomus Ratcliffe, female.
Photo by M.J. Paulsen
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Distribution of B. acomus.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
 

Distribution: Neotropical South America: Amazonas, Brazil; Loreto, Peru.

 

Biology, Biogeography:

 

Ratcliffe, B.C. 1984. A review of the Penichrolucaninae with analyses of phylogeny and biogeography and description of a second New World species from the Amazon Basin (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Quaestiones Entomologicae. 20: 60-87.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Remarks:

 

Brasilucanus species are hypothesized to live in ant or termite nests due to the extreme reduction in some structures (especially tarsi), and the greatly flattened and expanded legs that allow these beetles to become compacted (Ratcliffe 1984).

 
 
   
   
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Author: M. J. Paulsen
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