Aegus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Lucanidae
Subfamilia: Lucaninae
Genus: Aegus
Subgenera (11): A. (Aegotypus) – A. (Aegus) – A. (Cherasphorus) – A. (Elsion) – A. (Eubussea) – A. (Gnaphaegus) – A. (Micraegus) – A. (Paraegus) – A. (Pseudaegus) – A. (Torynognathus) – A. (Tumidaegus)
Overview of species (222)

A. acchusi – A. acervus – A. acuminatus – A. acutangulus – A. acutifrons – A. adelphus – A. albertisi – A. alternatus – A. ambiguus – A. amictus – A. amplus – A. angustanus – A. angustus – A. arcuatus – A. arnaudi – A. atricolor – A. babai – A. bakrii – A. barbatus – A. baumanni – A. beauchenei – A. bidens – A. bidentatus – A. bigibbosus – A. bisacutus – A. bison – A. blandus – A. borneensis – A. brevimandibularis – A. burgersi – A. caledoniae – A. callosilatus – A. capreolus – A. caprinus – A. celebensis – A. chelifer – A. chewi – A. chrysomelinus – A. circinatus – A. comes – A. consimilis – A. coomani – A. corniculatus – A. crassicrenatus – A. crucifer – A. currani – A. curtisi – A. curvus – A. cyclocerus – A. debatissei – A. delicatus – A. dilatatus – A. dilaticollis – A. dispar – A. dissimilis – A. duplodentatus – A. dusunorum – A. elegantulus – A. ellipticus – A. eschscholtzi – A. excavatus – A. eximius – A. falcicornis – A. fallax – A. formosulus – A. fornicatus – A. fragilis – A. frontalis – A. fujitaorum – A. fukiensis – A. fulgens – A. furfuraceus – A. genacerus – A. gestroi – A. glaber – A. glomerosus – A. gracilis – A. gracillimus – A. grandis – A. gressitti – A. haddeni – A. hamatus – A. helleri – A. hikidai – A. hindenburgi – A. hopei – A. horni – A. horridus – A. hyperpunctatus – A. implicatus – A. impressicollis – A. inaharai – A. inflatus – A. ingae – A. insignis – A. insipidus – A. interruptus – A. ipseni – A. isogaii – A. jansoni – A. jasmini – A. javanicus – A. jejunus – A. jengi – A. kandiensis – A. kazuhisai – A. kinabalensis – A. kirsteni – A. kobayashii – A. kombaensis – A. krieschei – A. krikkeni – A. kuantungensis – A. kumei – A. kurosawai – A. laevicollis – A. lansbergei – A. laticollis – A. latidens – A. leeuweni – A. leptodon – A. lesacae – A. linealis – A. listeri – A. lucidus – A. lunatus – A. luridus – A. lwini – A. maeandrinus – A. malapaensis – A. malayanus – A. malleti – A. marginatus – A. marginivillosus – A. masahikoi – A. melli – A. miles – A. milkintae – A. minahasaensis – A. minutus – A. misoolensis – A. miyashitai – A. modiglianii – A. monodentatus – A. myrmidon – A. nakaneorum – A. nar – A. naungi – A. nayani – A. nishikawai – A. nishiyamai – A. nobuyukii – A. notarii – A. oberthuri – A. octagonicus – A. ogasawarensis – A. oxygonus – A. parallelus – A. parryi – A. parvus – A. payakumbuhensis – A. pengalenganus – A. perforatus – A. peterseni – A. pichoni – A. planeti – A. planicollis – A. platyodon – A. porrectus – A. preangerensis – A. pulverosus – A. puncakensis – A. punctatissimus – A. punctipennis – A. punctithorax – A. punctulatus – A. pusillus – A. ramlii – A. rennellensis – A. retrodentatus – A. rhomboidodon – A. riedeli – A. rigouti – A. ritae – A. ritsemae – A. rondoni – A. rosselianus – A. rostratus – A. rubratus – A. rufurus – A. rungusiorum – A. sakamakii – A. schenklingi – A. sculpticollis – A. sculptipennis – A. sedlacekorum – A. selene – A. semicircularis – A. sepicanum – A. serratus – A. sexlineatus – A. shinjii – A. siamensis – A. squalidus – A. subniger – A. sulcaticollis – A. sumatraensis – A. svenjae – A. syamsuli – A. szentivanyi – A. tagulaensis – A. takakuwai – A. takayukii – A. taurus – A. tetsuoi – A. tutuilensis – A. upoluensis – A. variegarus – A. variolosus – A. werneri – A. westwoodi – A. woodfordi
Name

Aegus MacLeay, 1819

Synonyms

Paraegus Gahan, 1888 [syn. Arrow (1943: 140, 142)]

Type species

Paraegus Gahan: Paraegus listeri Gahan, 1888, by monotypy

Aegus laevicolis

References
cited sources

Arrow, G.J. 1943: On the genera and nomenclature of the lucanid Coleoptera, and descriptions of a few new species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London (B), 12: 133–143.
Gahan, C.J. 1888: On the Coleoptera of Christmas Island. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 56: 538–541. BHL

Additional references

Araya K.; Fujioka M. 2007: A new species of the genus Aegus (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) from south Sulawesi, Indonesia. Kogane, (8 ): 103–106.
Araya K.; Fujita K. 2015: A new species of the genus Aegus from Penang Island, West Malaysia. Kogane, (17 ): 123–126.
Arrow, G.J. 1935: A contribution to the classification of the coleopterous family Lucanidae. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 83: 105–125, plate VI. BUGZ
Huang, H.; Chen, C.-C., 2016: Two new species of stag beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae) from Taiwan, China. Beetles World, (14 ):1-6.
Kim, S.I.; Kim, J-I. 2010: Review of family Lucanidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) in Korea with the description of one new species. Entomological research, 40: 55–81. ISSN: 1738-2297 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-5967.2009.00263.x
Okuda, N. 2012: Two new species of Aegus MacLeay from south Sulawesi province, Indonesia. Gekkan-Mushi, (493 ): 25–28.
Okuda, N. 2015: A new species of the genus Aegus MacLeay (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) from Peleng Island, eastern Indonesia. Gekkan-Mushi, (536 ): 40–42.
Özdikmen, H.; Turgut, S. 2006: Nomenclatural changes in Lucaninae (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Munis entomology & zoology, 1 (1): 145–148.
Schenk, K.-D. 2003: [3rd contribution to the knowledge on the stag beetles of Asia (Coleoptera, Lucanidae).] Facetta, 22: 6–28. ISSN: 0940-8150 [not seen]
Schenk, K.-D. 2008: Contribution to the knowledge of the stag beetles of Asia (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) and description of several new taxa. Beetles World, (1 ) [in German with English abstract] [Publication date: 'March, 2008', sourced from first page of article]

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Aegus is a genus of stag beetles in the family Lucanidae. Comprising about 260 species in the genus, they are placed in the largest subfamily Lucaninae.[1][2] They are distributed in South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific countries, but introduced accidentally to many parts of the islands.[3][4]

Primarily saproxylic, adult beetles and grubs are commonly found in decaying wood and stumps with abundant fungal growth.[5]
Species

The species show dramatic external intraspecific variation resulting from sexual dimorphism and male polymorphism.[6]

Aegus acuminatus (Fabricius, 1801)
Aegus alternatus (Fairmaire 1881)
Aegus lansbergei Boileau 1902
Aegus bidens Möllenkamp 1902
Aegus brevimandibularis Nagai 1994
Aegus chelifer Macleay, 1819
Aegus coomani Didier, 1926
Aegus corniculatus Didier 1928
Aegus cornutus Boileau, 1899
Aegus eschscholtzi (Hope 1845)
Aegus formosae Bates 1866
Aegus grandis Deyrolle, 1874
Aegus helleri Nagel 1928
Aegus hyperpunctatus Boucher, 1996
Aegus jasmini Araya & Fujioka 2007
Aegus javanicus Oberthür & Houlbert 1914
Aegus jengi Huang & Chen, 2016
Aegus kombaensis Nagel 1941
Aegus krikkeni Nagai 1994
Aegus kurosawai Okajima & Ichikawa, 1986
Aegus laevicollis Saunders 1854
Aegus lansbergei Boileau, 1902
Aegus meeki Didier, 1928
Aegus modiglianii Bomans 1992
Aegus naungi Nagai & Maeda 2009
Aegus nakaneorum Ichikawa & Fujita, 1986
Aegus nitidus Boileau, 1899
Aegus parvus Boileau 1902
Aegus parallelus (Hope 1845)
Aegus philippinensis Deyrolle, 1865
Aegus planicollis Möllenkamp 1911
Aegus platyodon Parry, 1862
Aegus rotundatus Boileau, 1902
Aegus rubratus Didier 1928
Aegus sepicanum (Kriesche 1920)
Aegus sexlineatus Nagel 1928
Aegus takakuwai Fujita 2010
Aegus taurus Boileau, 1899
Aegus westwoodi Boileau, 1899

References

"Aegus - Encyclopedia of Life". eol.org. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
"Sorry! We are experiencing technical difficulties". bioone.org. doi:10.2108/zsj.22.1305. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
"Aegus chelifer Macleay 1819, an Asian stag beetle (Coleoptera Lucanidae) invading the Seychelles Islands: a threat for endemic saproxylic species?". Tropical Zoology 23(2):173-180. Retrieved 2021-07-26.
"Aegus". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
Songvorawit, Nut; Butcher, Buntika Areekul; Chaisuekul, Chatchawan (2017-12-08). "Decaying Wood Preference of Stag Beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae) in a Tropical Dry-Evergreen Forest". Environmental Entomology. pp. 1322–1328. doi:10.1093/ee/nvx143. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
Yuyan Cao, Michael D. Webb; Yuyan Cao, Michael D. Webb. "New synonymies and records of the stag-beetle genus Aegus MacLeay from Chinese fauna (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)". 动物分类学报 (in Chinese). pp. 261–272. doi:10.11865/zs.201627. Retrieved 2021-07-29.