Aesalus

Aesalus
Aesalus scarabaeoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Lucanidae
Subfamily: Aesalinae
Tribe: Aesalini
Genus: Aesalus
(Fabricius, 1801)

Aesalus is a genus of Palaearctic and Oriental realm stag beetles, typical of the subfamily Aesalinae and tribe Aesalini; it was erected by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1801.[1]

Species

BioLib[2] includes the following:

subgenus Aesalus Fabricius, 1801
  1. Aesalus asiaticus Lewis, 1883
  2. Aesalus scarabaeoides (Panzer, 1794)
  3. Aesalus ulanovskii Ganglbauer, 1887 (also spelled A. ulanowskii)
subgenus Huaesalus Huang & Chen, 2017
  1. Aesalus imanishii Inahara & Ratii, 1981
  2. Aesalus leei Lin, 2025
  3. Aesalus qiaoweipengi Huang, Yang & Chen, 2022
  4. Aesalus sichuanensis Araya, Tanaka & Tanikado, 1995
unplaced species
  1. Aesalus chungi Huang & Chen, 2015
  2. Aesalus neotropicalis Bates, 1886
  3. Aesalus smithi Bates, 1886
  4. Aesalus trogoides Albers, 1883

References

  1. ^ Fabricius JC (1801) Systema Eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus I. Impensis Bibliopoli Academici Novi, Kiliae: 1-506. Available here
  2. ^ BioLib.cz: genus Aesalus Fabricius, 1801 (retrieved 26 January 2026)
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