Definition of Family Lucanidae

1. Noun. Stag beetles.

Exact synonyms: Lucanidae
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Lamellicornia, Superfamily Lamellicornia
Member holonyms: Stag Beetle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Lucanidae

family Liparidae
family Liparididae
family Lithodidae
family Littorinidae
family Loasaceae
family Lobeliaceae
family Lobotidae
family Locustidae
family Loganiaceae
family Lomariopsidaceae
family Lophiidae
family Lophosoriaceae
family Loranthaceae
family Lorisidae
family Loxomataceae
family Lucanidae (current term)
family Lutjanidae
family Luvaridae
family Lycaenidae
family Lycoperdaceae
family Lycopodiaceae
family Lycosidae
family Lygaeidae
family Lymantriidae
family Lythraceae
family Machilidae
family Macropodidae
family Macrorhamphosidae
family Macrouridae
family Macruridae

Literary usage of Family Lucanidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Injurious and Useful Insects: An Introduction to the Study of Economic by Louis Compton Miall (1902)
"family Lucanidae (stag-beetles). Last joints of antenna merely enlarged, not flattened. The stag-beetle is the largest British beetle. ..."

2. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1890)
"... a subfamily of the coleopterous family lucanidae, remarkable for the polymorphism of the males, while the females remained very similar. ..."

3. The Agricultural Pests of India, and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Vegetable by Edward Balfour (1887)
"Dorcus titan, a large stag - beetle of Java, family Lucanidae. Doryphora. Potato beetle, the Doryphora ..."

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