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stag beetle

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stag beetle
any lamellicorn beetle of the family Lucanidae, the males of which have large branched mandibles


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Among the best-known of Durer's nature works, The Stag Beetle on this month's cover is startling, and not only for its artistic presentation.
Collectors are known to pay as much as [yen] 400,000 for prime specimens of rare breeds, such as Dorcus Antaeus, a stag beetle native to Malaysia.
In ``Specimen (After Durer),'' Baldessari decided to blow up Albrecht Durer's watercolor of a stag beetle to monstrous proportions, then impale it with a giant specimen pin.
 
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