Cover Illustration, The American Biology Teacher

I collected this beetle while in Malaysia in 1973. I used it as the inspiration for the beetle icon in the green logo seen on these pages. From the inside cover of The American Biology Teacher, March 1982:

Pen-and-ink drawing on scratchboard of a beetle in the family Lucanidae (Stag Beetles), drawn from life. The Stag Beetles are so called because the mandibles of the male, which may be half as long as the body and are branched, resemble the antlers of a stag. The specimen is probably a female. (Sex is not easy to determine because there are males with small mandibles who, mimicking females, take the opportunity to mate while their large-mandibled rivals are fighting over the female.) The specimen was collected in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia in November 1973. It is 27 mm long and light reddish-brown with darker accents; the fine hairs around the head and thorax are golden-yellow. The drawing was made as a final project in a class in Life Sciences Illustration.