Neolucanus perarmatus Didier,1925

Neolucanus perarmatus Didier,1925 found from North and Center of Vietnam.

Neolucanus nitidus (Saunders, 1854)

Neolucanus nitidus (Saunders, 1854) was found from North and Center of Vietnam.

Neolucanus maximus (Houlbert, 1912)

Neolucanus maximus (Houlbert, 1912) is a large size of the genus, they found may localities in Vietnam.

Neolucanus punctulatus Nguyen et Schenk,2013

This new species was described by Nguyen and Schenk on Beetles World journal, No 7 in 2013 based on 12 males and 1 female. Type specimens were collected from Ba Na forest area, Da Nang, South center of Vietnam. Maybe its distribution also extent to Bach Ma, Thua Thien Hue because the two ranges of mountains are connected together.

Neolucanus punctulatus is small size beetle, name of the species is idea of first author of the species, Mr. Quangthai Nguyen, with meaning "punctured", because the surface of body of the species strongly punctured.

N. punctulatus is closed to its related species N. guiardi that found from Laos.

Photo of male paratype Neolucanus punctulatus from author's collection

Neolucanus baongocae Nguyen, 2013

In the field trip to Lam Dong and Khanh Hoa Province in 2013, a Vietnamese researcher of Lucanidae, Mr. Nguyen Quang Thai, has found an extreme beautiful Neolucanus. The species then be described by him undername N. baongocae Nguyen, 2013; it be name after his little daughter.

The new species is typical with brighten color, red pronotum and brown yellow elytra, that not be seen in any Vietnamese Neolucanus. Lucanidae is a well known and one of the most completed studied insect group so the new discover of a species in the family is one of remarkable point of entomology.

Males/Paratypes of N. baongocae in dorsal view, photographed by the author (in the original description)

Holotype of N. baongocae in lateral view, photographed by the author (in the original description)

Neolucanus delicatus Didier, 1927

This species had been misidentified with Neolucanus fuscus Didier, 1926 that found from North Vietnam (Tam Dao, Sa Pa, Tuyen Quang...) and South China. The true Neolucanus delicatus was found from Quang Nam Province, the center of Vietnam, and it is considered as a narrow distributed species and very possibility that the species is an endemic creature (only found from Center of Vietnam). Not as related species Neolucanus fuscus, species Neolucanus delicatus only found in black form with the very slender and curved up mandibles. Mandibles of N. fucus are more robust and not so up curved as them of N. delicatus.

Neolucanus delicatus (dorsal view)

Neolucanus delicatus (lateral view), show the very slender and curved up mandibles