Platycerus caraboides

Familia: Lucanidae
Subfamilia: Lucaninae
Tribus: Platycerini
Genus: Platycerus
Species:
Subspecies: P. c. caerulosus – P. c. caraboides

• Platycerus caraboides (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Original combination: Scarabaeus caraboides
  • Combination: Lucanus caraboides
    • Source: Fabricius 1775: 3 BHL

• Scarabaeus chalybaeus MacLeay, 1819
• Scarabaeus virescens Mulsant, 1842
• Scarabaeus viridiaeneus Mulsant, 1842
• Scarabaeus azurea Dalla Torre, 1879
• Scarabaeus aeneus Weise, 1883
• Scarabaeus delugranei Fairmaire, 1892
• Scarabaeus viridicollis Depoli, 1917
• Scarabaeus corniolicus Roubal, 1919

• Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Holmiæ (Stockholm): impensis direct. Laurentii Salvii. 824 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.542 BHL p. 354 BHL Reference page. 
• ICZN 1994. Opinion 1754. Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouve aux environs de Paris (Geoffroy, 1762): some generic names conserved (Crustacea, Insecta). The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 51(1): 58–70. BHL. Reference page. 

• Benesh, B. 1946: A systematic revision of the Holarctic genus Platycerus Geoffroy (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 72: 139–202, plates IV-IX.
• Fabricius, J.C. 1775: Systema Entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species... Flensburgh and Leipzig, Library Kortii. Internet Archive Biodiversity Heritage Library

• LES_LUCANIDAE_DU_MONDE

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