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Lucanus tetraodon

species of beetles

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionOct 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ390153 ↗
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Lucanus tetraodon is a stag beetle of the family Lucanidae.

Description

Similar to Lucanus cervus and Lucanus capreolus it is, with a length of 30–48 mm, a relatively large lucanid beetle of the genus Lucanus. The male has long, curved upper jaws, while female's are shorter.

Habitat

This species is diffused in Central and Southern Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Southern France, Albania, Greece and Algeria. It is diffused in the mesophilic woods and in the maquis shrubland.

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See also

Taxonomy of Lucanidae

References

External links

Data related to Lucanus tetraodon at Wikispecies

"Lucanus tetraodon". BioLib.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lucanus tetraodon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.