Colonists from the Italic peninsula like the Lucanus, Murrius, Vitellius and Aponia families, mixed with the previous local inhabitants such as the Turrania, Valeria, Alios and Maelo families.
Lucanus | Lucanus cervus | Jan Lucanus |
Antoine de Laurès (1708–1779), writer, friend of Voltaire, translator into French of Pharsalia by Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus), and author of La fête de Cythère, a one act opera created on 19 November 1753 at the Château de Berny.
Lucanus cervus is registered in the second appendix of the Habitats Directive of the European Union from 1992, which requires that member states set aside Special Areas of Conservation.
Pliny the Elder noted that Nigidius called the stag beetle lucanus after the Italian region of Lucania where they were used as amulets.
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The scientific name of Lucanus cervus is this word, plus cervus, deer.