Lucanus cervus is the best-known species of stag beetle
in the West (family Lucanidae), and is sometimes referred to simply as
the stag beetle. It lives in holes in old trees and dead trunks, in the
forest as well as in groves. Forest management, in eliminating old trees and dead wood, eliminates at the same time the habitat and food of this species. Once quite common, the population of the
Lucanus cervus, along with that of other species of beetles which feed on wood, is in steep decline, and is now listed as a globally threatened/declining species.
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