Stag beetles of the genus Dorcus MacLeay in North America (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) Author Paulsen, M. J. University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, United States of America text ZooKeys 2010 2010-01-28 34 34 199 207 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.34.292 e4793122-9b59-4473-9912-18d50e3db61c 1313–2970 576613 49601E51-1B57-4176-8A18-50B6CA622B40 Dorcus parallelipipedus (Linnaeus, 1758) Scarabaeus parallelipipedus Linnaeus 1758: 354 , original combination. Palearctic synonymy given in Bartolozzi and Sprecher-Uebersax (2006) . Dorcus mexicanus Benesh 1944: 45 , syn. n. Type material: Holotype male (FMNH) labeled a) “JALAPA / MEX ”; b) male symbol; c) “FIELD MUSEUM / ( F. Psota Figures 9–ΙΙ. Male genitalia (parameres and flagellum). 9 Dorcus parallelus Ι0 Dorcus brevis ΙΙ Dorcus parallelipipedus . Scale bar = 5 mm . Coll.)”; d) reddish-orange paper “ Holotype / male symbol CNHM / [ Dorcus / mexicanus / Benesh]” ; e) handwritten “ Dorcus / mexicanus / MS Benesh”, on reverse “ Det. Dec. 15, 1943 / B. Benesh ”. Female allotype labeled a) female symbol ; b) as c of holotype ; c) on reddish-orange paper “ Allotype / CNHM female symbol / [ Dorcus / mexicanus / Benesh]” . This species is distributed in Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa ( Bartolozzi & Sprecher-Uebersax 2006 ). Acknowledgments I thank James Boone (FMNH) and Gary Hevel (USNM) for their help in receiving type material on loan, and Phil Harpootlian (Simpsonville, SC) for providing specimens of D. brevis for study. Auto-Montaged images were supported, in part, by NSF- DBI 0500767.