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Dorcus MacLeay, 1819
........Dorcus MacLeay, 1819: 195
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D. parallelus Say, male. Photo by M.J. Paulsen |
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Distribution: North America: Eastern US and Canada. Palearctic.
Revision or Synopsis:
Benesh, B. 1937. Some notes on boreal American Dorcinae (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63: 1-16 + pl. I-III.
Paulsen, MJ. 2010. Stag beetles of the genus Dorcus MacLeay in North America (Coleoptera, Lucanidae). In: Ratcliffe B, Krell F-T (Eds) Current advances in Scarabaeoidea research. ZooKeys 34: 199–207. Download.
Composition:
30 species (excluding Serrognathus Motschulsky and Macrodorcus Motschulsky). Only 2 species are found in the New World, both are widely distributed in the eastern US and Canada. The name D. mexicanus Benesh is a synonym of the Old World species D. parallelipipedus (L.) based on mislabeled specimens.
Species profile: (click on species name when available)
D. brevis (Say)
D. parallelus (Say)
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