''Leptinopterus tibialis'' is a species of
beetle
Beetles are insects that form the Taxonomic rank, order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Holometabola. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 40 ...
s belonging to the family
Lucanidae
Stag beetles comprise the family Lucanidae. It has about 1,200 species of beetles in four subfamilies.Smith, A.B.T. (2006). A review of the family-group names for the superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) with corrections to nomenclature and a c ...
.
Description
''Leptinopterus tibialis'' can reach a length of about in the males, about in the females. Males have well-developed mandibles, with several teeth of various sizes in the interior edges.
Distribution
This quite rare species occurs in
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
,
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
and
Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...
.
References
* 2009: Description of two new species of ''Leptinopterus'' Hope (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Lucaninae) with notes on the taxonomy and natural history of the genus
''Zootaxa'' 2172: 32–44
Abstract & excerptBiolibSynopsis of the described Coleoptera of the World
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tibialis
Lucaninae
Arthropods of Argentina
Beetles of Brazil
Beetles described in 1822
Taxa named by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz
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