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
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ZooKeys
2010
2010-01-28
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Dorcus parallelus
(Say, 1823)
Lucanus parallelus
Say 1823: 248
, original combination.
Type
material: Not listed among the existing Say
type
material by
Mawdsley (1993)
.
Lucanus oblongus
Charpentier 1825: 214
, synonym (
Burmeister 1847
).
Type
not examined.
Dorcus costatus
LeConte 1866: 35
, synonym. Type material:
Holotype
female (MCZ) labeled a) red disk; b) handwritten “
var.
costatus
/ LeC.”; c) reddish-orange label “Type / [3688]”.
Dorcus parallelus nanus
Casey 1909: 278
, synonym. Type material:
Syntype
male (USNM) labeled a) “CASEY / bequest / 1925”;
b) reddish-orange label “
TYPE
USNM
/ [36202]”.
Syntype
female (
UNSM
) labeled a) as male
;
b) reddish-orange label “[
nanus – 2
] /
PARATYPE
USNM
/ [36202]”
.
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Figures 7–8.
Head of minor males, dorsal view. Inset showing dentition of right mandible.
7
Dorcus parallelus
8
Dorcus brevis
.
Dorcus carnochani
Angell 1916: 70
, synonym.Type material:Two
syntype
males and one
syntype
female, possibly located in storage at the Brooklyn Museum, not examined.
Distribution.
Specimens examined from
Alabama
,
Illinois
,
Indiana
,
Iowa
,
Maryland
,
Michigan
,
Nebraska
,
New York
,
Ohio
,
South Carolina
,
Tennessee
, and
Virginia
.