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Sclerodorcinus Soares & Grossi, 2025
....Sclerodorcinus Soares & Grossi, 2025: 328 (original combination).
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Scarabaeoidea
Lucanidae
Lucaninae
 
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S. wendyae pair

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Male (left) and female S. wendyae (Arnaud & Bomans).
Photo by MJ Paulsen.
Approximate distribution of
Sclerodorcinus
species.
 

Distribution: Neotropical South America: Peru (Soares & Grossi 2025).

 

Revision or Synopsis:

 

Soares, A.W.A and Grossi P.C. 2025. Description of a new genus of Sclerostomini (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae) from the Peruvian Andes. Zootaxa 5719 (3): 327-344.

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

   
 

Composition: 4 species.

   
 

Keys to Species:

 

Soares, A.W.A and Grossi P.C. 2025. Description of a new genus of Sclerostomini (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae) from the Peruvian Andes. Zootaxa 5719 (3): 327-344.

 
 
 

Remarks: Sclerodorcinus is characterized by the absence of a ventral groove on the male mandibles, the presence of a dorsal groove on the female mandibles, the absence of a temporal process in both sexes, and the hexagonal shape of the dorsal plate of the complex genitalic capsule in males (Soares & Grossi 2025).

 
 
 
 

Species profile: (pages under construction)

S. bartolozzii (Arnaud & Bomans)
S. damasoi (Arnaud & Bomans)
S. wendyae (Arnaud & Bomans)
S. yamauchii (Arnaud et al.)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
   
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Author: M. J. Paulsen
Generated on:
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University of Nebraska State Museum - Division of Entomology