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dry taxidermal insect specimen

Natural sciences, zoology, insect, Stag beetle – Lucanuscervus (Linnaeus)

Stag beetle – Lucanuscervus (Linnaeus)

Stag beetle is one of our largest, the most interesting and the most famous of our coleopteran. It was named after large bumps on the head of the male which resemble deer's stag. It inhabits oak woods where it feeds on the sap that oak trees exude at the places of crevices.