Center for Systematic Entomology

A surprising new fightless stag beetle (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae) genus and species from Peru

ColeopteraLucanidaeLucaninae

  • Maria Clara F. Amorim

    Laboratório de Taxonomia de Insetos, Departamento de Agronomia, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Recife, Brazil

  • M. J. Paulsen

    University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

    ORCID 0009-0009-2285-035X

  • Luis Figueroa

    Departamento de Entomología, Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru

    ORCID 0000-0002-1404-6195

  • Paschoal C. Grossi

    Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Recife, Brazil

    ORCID 0000-0001-6601-5967
DOI
https://doi.org/10.64338/im.1169.e90k9
ZooBank
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2CA7C890-94EA-465B-8197-CBA336D5C374
Keywords
Coleoptera, Gondwanan fragmentation, Neotropical region, taxonomy, stagbeetle

Abstract

A new beetle genus was found from the lucanid tribe Chiasognathini (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae) in the Peruvian high plateaus. Here we first describe Orotrupes Amorim and Paulsen, new genus, and its type species, O. asenjoi Amorim and Grossi, new species, compare it to other species of the tribe and speculate on the biogeographical history of the new taxa. Additionally, we provide a new generic key to the tribe and a map to chiasognathine beetles found in Peru.

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