stag beetle

See also: stag-beetle

English

male (left) and female (right) stag beetles, Lucanus cervus

Alternative forms

• stag-beetle

Noun

stag beetle (plural stag beetles)

1. Any of numerous large beetles of the family Lucanidae, the males having elaborate mandibles resembling the antlers of a stag
   1. The species Lucanus cervus, which is the largest beetle in the UK.

Translations

large beetle in Lucanidae

• Albanian: brekazi (sq) m
• Asturian: vacalloria f
• Bulgarian: бръ́мбар рога́ч m (brǎ́mbar rogáč)
• Catalan: escanyapolls m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鍬形蟲／锹形虫 (zh) (qiāoxíngchóng)

• Dutch: vliegend hert (nl) n
• Esperanto: cervoskarabo, kornoskarabo
• Finnish: kampasarvinen, tammihärkä (fi) (Lucanus cervus)
• French: lucane cerf-volant m
• Galician: vacaloura (gl) f, escornabois (gl) m
• German: Hirschkäfer (de) m
• Italian: cervo volante m
• Japanese: クワガタムシ (kuwagatamushi), クワガタ (kuwagata)
• Javanese: kuwangwung (jv)
• Korean: 하늘가재 (haneulgajae)
• Macedonian: бач (bač)
• Navajo: kʼíneedlíshii adiłhashígíí
• Norman: dgiâbl'ye m
• Okinawan: ハサン (hasan)
• Polish: jelonek rogacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: vacaloura f
• Romanian: rădașcă (ro) f
• Russian: жук-оле́нь (ru) m (žuk-olénʹ), рога́ч (ru) m (rogáč)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јеленак m

  Roman: jelenak (sh) m

• Spanish: ciervo volante m

References

• Stag beetle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lucanidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lucanidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons