{{Short description|Subfamily of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Aesalus.scarabaeoides.-.calwer.22.26.jpg | image_caption = ''Aesalus.scarabaeoides'' | taxon = Aesalinae | authority = MacLeay, 1819 | display_parents = 3 | synonyms = }}
The '''Aesalinae''' are a subfamily of the stag beetle (Lucanidae) genera: based on the type genus ''Aesalus'' and included in William Sharp Macleay's first major work of 1819.<ref>MacLeay WS (1819) ''Horae entomologicae: or essays on the annulose animals''. S. Bagster. London Vol.1 Part 1: 1-160. [https://archive.org/download/CUbiodiversity1130593/CUbiodiversity1130593.pdf Available here]</ref>
==Tribes and genera== ''BioLib''<ref>[https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id7853/ BioLib.cz: subfamily Aesalinae MacLeay, 1819] (retrieved 26 January 2025)</ref> includes three tribes: ===Aesalini=== Authority: MacLeay, 1819 # ''Aesalus'' {{Au|Fabricius, 1801}} # ''Echinoaesalus'' {{Au|Zelenka, 1993}} # ''Himaloaesalus'' {{Au|Huang & Chen, 2013}} # ''Lucanobium'' {{Au|Howden & Lawrence, 1974}} # ''Strabaesalus'' {{Au|Paulsen, 2018}} # ''Trogellus'' {{Au|Paulsen, 2013}} # ''Zelenkaesalus'' {{Au|Krikken, 2008}} ;Fossil genera # †''Cretaesalus'' {{Au|Nikolajev, 1993}} # †''Juraesalus'' {{Au|Nikolajev, Wang, Liu & Zhang, 2011}} # †''Sinaesalus'' {{Au|Nikolajev, Wang, Liu & Zhang, 2011}}
===Ceratognathini=== Authority: Sharp, 1899 # ''Ceratognathus'' {{Au|Westwood, 1838}} # ''Hilophyllus'' {{Au|Paulsen & Mondaca, 2006}} # ''Holloceratognathus'' {{Au|Nikolajev, 1998}} # ''Mitophyllus'' {{Au|Parry, 1843}} ;Fossil genera # †''Electraesalopsis'' {{Au|Bai, Zhang & Qiu, 2017}} # †''Oncelytris'' {{Au|Li & Cai, 2023}} # †''Protonicagus'' {{Au|Cai et al., 2017}}
===Nicagini=== Authority: LeConte, 1861 # ''Nicagus'' {{Au|LeConte, 1861}}
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Aesalinae Category:Beetle subfamilies Category:Taxa named by William Sharp Macleay Category:Taxa described in 1819