Lampriminae
| Lampriminae | |
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| Lamprima aurata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Superfamily: | Scarabaeoidea |
| Family: | Lucanidae |
| Subfamily: | Lampriminae MacLeay, 1819 |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The Lampriminae are a relatively small subfamily of southern hemisphere stag beetle (Lucanidae) genera: based on the type genus Lamprima and included in William Sharp Macleay's first major work of 1819.[2]
Genera
[edit]BioLib[1] includes:
- Dendroblax White, 1846 (monotypic) - New Zealand
- Homolamprima Macleay, 1885 (monotypic) – New South Wales (Australia)
- Lamprima Latreille, 1806 – Australia
- Phalacrognathus Macleay, 1885 (monotypic) – Australia, New Guinea
- Streptocerus Fairmaire, 1850 (monotypic) – Chile
- Fossil genera
- †Paleognathus Waga, 1883
- †Prostreptocerus Yu & Cai, 2024
Gallery
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Dendroblax eralii
Lamprima aurata larva
Phalacrognathus muelleri
References
[edit]- 1 2 BioLib.cz: subfamily Lampriminae MacLeay, 1819 (retrieved 28 January 2026)
- ↑ MacLeay WS (1819) Horae entomologicae: or essays on the annulose animals. S. Bagster. London Vol.1 Part 1: 1-160. Available here
External links
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Media related to Lampriminae at Wikimedia Commons
