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Brasilucanus Vulcano & Pereira, 1961
.......Brasilucanus Vulcano & Pereira, 1961: 473

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Brasilucanus acomus Ratcliffe, female.
Photo by M.J. Paulsen

Distribution of
Brasilucanus species.

 
 

Distribution: Neotropical South America: Brazil, Guyana, Peru.

Revision or Synopsis:

 

Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1984. A review of the Penichrolucaninae with analyses of phylogeny and biogeography and description of a second New World species from the Amazon Basin (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Quaestiones Entomologicae. 20: 60-87.

 
 
 
 
Composition: 2 species.
   
 

Taxonomy:

 

Vulcano, M.A. & F.S. Pereira. 1961. A subfamília Penichrolucaninae representada em América (Col. Lucanidae). Studia Entomologia. 4: 471-480.

 
 

Keys to Species:

 

Ratcliffe, Brett C. 1984. A review of the Penichrolucaninae with analyses of phylogeny and biogeography and description of a second New World species from the Amazon Basin (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Quaest. Ent. 20: 60-87.

 
 
 
 

Species profiles: (click on species name when available)

B. acomus Ratcliffe
B. alvarengai Vulcano & Pereira

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
   
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Author: M. J. Paulsen
Generated on:
21/OCT/2006
University of Nebraska State Museum - Division of Entomology