Platycerus caraboides
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| Platycerus caraboides | |
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| Platycerus caraboides. Male | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Lucanidae |
| Genus: | Platycerus |
| Species: | P. caraboides |
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| Platycerus caraboides | |
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Platycerus caraboides is a species of stag beetle belonging to the family Lucanidae, subfamily Lucaninae.
Subspecies include: [1]
- Platycerus caraboides caerulosus Didier & Ségui, 1953
- Platycerus caraboides caraboides (Linnaeus, 1758)
Distribution
These beetles are present in most of Europe (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy,[2] Luxembourg, the Republic of North Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and United Kingdom), in Asia (China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Syria, Turkey) and in North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) [3]
