# Aesalus

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{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Aesalus scarabaeoides 1231025.jpg
| image_caption = ''Aesalus scarabaeoides''
| taxon = Aesalus
| authority = ([Fabricius](/source/Johan_Christian_Fabricius), 1801)
| display_parents = 3
| synonyms = 
}}

'''''Aesalus''''' is a genus of [Palaearctic](/source/Palaearctic) and [Oriental realm](/source/Oriental_realm) [stag beetle](/source/stag_beetle)s, typical of the subfamily [Aesalinae](/source/Aesalinae) and tribe [Aesalini](/source/Aesalini); it was erected by [Johan Christian Fabricius](/source/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](/source/Aesalus_asiaticus)'' {{Au|Lewis, 1883}}
# ''[Aesalus scarabaeoides](/source/Aesalus_scarabaeoides)'' {{Au|(Panzer, 1794)}}
# ''[Aesalus ulanovskii](/source/Aesalus_ulanovskii)'' {{Au|Ganglbauer, 1887}} (also spelled ''A. ulanowskii'')
;subgenus ''Huaesalus'' {{Au|Huang & Chen, 2017}}
# ''[Aesalus imanishii](/source/Aesalus_imanishii)'' {{Au|Inahara & Ratii, 1981}}
# ''[Aesalus leei](/source/Aesalus_leei)'' {{Au|Lin, 2025}}
# ''[Aesalus qiaoweipengi](/source/Aesalus_qiaoweipengi)'' {{Au|Huang, Yang & Chen, 2022}}
# ''[Aesalus sichuanensis](/source/Aesalus_sichuanensis)'' {{Au|Araya, Tanaka & Tanikado, 1995}}
;unplaced species
# ''[Aesalus chungi](/source/Aesalus_chungi)'' {{Au|Huang & Chen, 2015}}
# ''[Aesalus neotropicalis](/source/Aesalus_neotropicalis)'' {{Au|Bates, 1886}}
# ''[Aesalus smithi](/source/Aesalus_smithi)'' {{Au|Bates, 1886}}
# ''[Aesalus trogoides](/source/Aesalus_trogoides)'' {{Au|Albers, 1883}}

==References==
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==External links==
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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

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