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Definition of Family Lucanidae
1. Noun. Stag beetles.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Family
Group relationships: Lamellicornia, Superfamily Lamellicornia
Member holonyms: Stag Beetle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Lucanidae
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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