{{Short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Aesalus scarabaeoides 1231025.jpg | image_caption = ''Aesalus scarabaeoides'' | taxon = Aesalus | authority = (Fabricius, 1801) | display_parents = 3 | synonyms = }}
'''''Aesalus''''' is a genus of Palaearctic and Oriental realm stag beetles, typical of the subfamily Aesalinae and tribe Aesalini; it was erected by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1801.<ref>Fabricius JC (1801) Systema Eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. ''Tomus I. Impensis Bibliopoli Academici Novi, Kiliae'': 1-506. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k97105h Available here]</ref>
==Species== ''BioLib''<ref>[https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id7854/ BioLib.cz: genus ''Aesalus'' Fabricius, 1801] (retrieved 26 January 2026)</ref> includes the following: ;subgenus ''Aesalus'' {{Au|Fabricius, 1801}} # ''Aesalus asiaticus'' {{Au|Lewis, 1883}} # ''Aesalus scarabaeoides'' {{Au|(Panzer, 1794)}} # ''Aesalus ulanovskii'' {{Au|Ganglbauer, 1887}} (also spelled ''A. ulanowskii'') ;subgenus ''Huaesalus'' {{Au|Huang & Chen, 2017}} # ''Aesalus imanishii'' {{Au|Inahara & Ratii, 1981}} # ''Aesalus leei'' {{Au|Lin, 2025}} # ''Aesalus qiaoweipengi'' {{Au|Huang, Yang & Chen, 2022}} # ''Aesalus sichuanensis'' {{Au|Araya, Tanaka & Tanikado, 1995}} ;unplaced species # ''Aesalus chungi'' {{Au|Huang & Chen, 2015}} # ''Aesalus neotropicalis'' {{Au|Bates, 1886}} # ''Aesalus smithi'' {{Au|Bates, 1886}} # ''Aesalus trogoides'' {{Au|Albers, 1883}}
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Aesalinae Category:Lucanidae genera Category:Beetles of Europe Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius Category:Taxa described in 1801 Category:Beetles of Asia