Serrognathus (Lasiodorcus) taurus (Fabricius 1801)

Dorcus taurus is a species of beetle belonging to the family Lucanidae which was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1801.^[2]

Description

Dorcus taurus reaches a length of about 50–60 millimetres (2.0–2.4 in) in males and about 40–45 millimetres (1.6–1.8 in) in females. In males the head is large with large jaws. The head and the pronotum are dark brown, while elytra are clearer.

Distribution

Dorcus taurus can be found in Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia .

Subspecies

Species and subspecies of the genus Serrognathus were recently reclassified and merged into the genus Dorcus as follows:^[1][3][4]

• Dorcus taurus borneensis Hughes Bomans, 1993 – Borneo
• Dorcus taurus cribriceps (Chevrolat, 1841) – Luzón, Negros, Mindoro and Mindanao
• Dorcus taurus gypaetus (Laporte de Castelnau, 1840) – Java
• Dorcus taurus jampeanus (Mizunuma in Mizunuma and Shinji Nagai, 1994) – Sulawesi
• Dorcus taurus moinieri (Lacroix, 1983)
• Dorcus taurus taurus (Fabricius, 1801) – Sumatra and Malay Peninsula

Dorcus taurus taurus from Sumatra, males and females

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