Aesalini

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Scarabaeiformia
Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Lucanidae
Subfamilia: Aesalinae
Tribus: Aesalini
Genera (4 + 3†): Aesalus – Echinoaesalus – Lucanobium – Trogellus – †Cretaesalus – †Juraesalus – †Sinaesalus

Name

Aesalini MacLeay, 1819

References

Araya, K. 2004: On attractive lucanid beetles of the tribe Aesalini. Gekkan-Mushi, 402: 18–25.
Araya, K. 2004: Phylogeny and biogeography of the lucanid beetles of the tribe Aesalini (Insecta, Coleoptera, Lucanidae), with special reference to the effect of Himalayan uplift as the vicariance event. Himalayan journal of sciences, 2(4) (special issue): 96–97. PDF
Araya, K.; Kon, M.; Bartolozzi, L. 1997: Morphological comparisons of the Old World Aesalini (Insecta, Coleoptera, Lucanidae), with special reference to Aesalus imanishii from Taiwan. Pp. 125-133 in Lue, K.Y.; Chen, T.H. (eds.) The Symposium on the Phylogeny, Biology and Conservation of Fauna and Flora of East Asian Region, 1997. Dept. Biol., National Taiwan Univ. and National Science Council, R.O.C.
Araya, K.; Kon, M.; Bartolozzi, L.; Bomans, H.G.; Reyes-Castillo, P. 1996: Phylogeny of the tribe Aesalini (Coleoptera, Lucanidae). A celebration of systematics. 15th meeting of the Willi Hennig Society. University of Cape Town, South Africa: 1–11.
Howden, H.F. & Lawrence, J.F. 1974: The New World Aesalinae, with notes on the North American lucanid subfamilies (Coleoptera, Lucanidae). Canadian journal of zoology 52: 1505-1510. DOI: 10.1139/z74-193 Open access. Reference page
Nikolajev, G.V.; Wang, B.; Liu, Y.; Zhang, H-c. 2011: Stag beetles from the Mesozoic of Inner Mongolia, China (Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae). Acta palaeontologica sinica, 50(1): 41–47. [Publication date: 'March, 2011', sourced from first page of article]