LUCANINAE Latreille, 1804

FIGULINI Burmeister, 1847

= Penichrolucanini Arrow, 1950 - Paulsen 2018: 2 (syn. nov.)

= Brasilucanini Nikolajev, 1999 - Paulsen 2018: 2 (syn. nov.)

Note. In their description of the genus Brasilucanus, Vulcano and Pereira (1961: 473) place it within the tribe Penichrolucanini. Nikolajev (1999: 171) places it within the new monogeneric tribe Brasilucanini. Both these tribes are treated as synonyms of the subfamily Lucaninae by Smith (2006: 155) and as synonyms of the tribe Lucanini by Bouchard et al. (2011: 233, 235). The genus is again placed in the revived Penichrolucanini by Bartolozzi and Zilioli (2016: 123). Paulsen (2018: 2) considers Penichrolucanini as well as Brasilucanini to be synonyms of the tribe Figulini. We follow the latter opinion.