Syndesus

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: Syndesinae
Genus: Syndesus
Synonyms (2): Hexaphyllum – Psilodon

Species (11): S. aequinoctialis – S. cancellatus – S. cornutus – S. gilberti – S. luki – S. macleayi – S. punctatus – S. schuberti – S. seguyi – S. xerophilicus – †S. ambericus
Name

Syndesus Macleay, 1819
References

Macleay, W.S. 1819. Horae entomologicae: or essays on the annulose animals. Containing geneal observations on the geography, manners, and natural affinities of the Insects which compose the genus Scarabaeus of Linnaeus; to which are added a few incidental remarks on the genera Lucanus and Hister of the same author. With an appendix and plates. Vol. 1. Part 1. London: S. Bagster, xxx + [2] + 160 pp., 3 pls. BHL Reference page.
Benesh, B. 1955: Some further notes on the stagbeetles, with especial reference to Figulinae (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Transactions of the American entomological Society, 81: 59–76. JSTOR
Onore, G., Bartolozzi, L. & Zilioli, M. 2011. A new species of the genus Syndesus Macleay, 1819 (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) from Ecuador. Kogane (12): 43–48. Reference page.
Woodruff, R.E. 2009: A new fossil species of stag beetle from Dominican Republic amber, with Australasian connections (Coleoptera: Lucanidae). Insecta mundi, (0098) PDF

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LUCANIDAE OF THE WORLD Genera AND CATALOGUE