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closeup view from above of a large European Stag Beetle also known as Lucanus Cervus or Greater Stag Beetle, he has a black black body, made up from 3 segments, 6 thin long black articulated legs, a pair of black thin antennae one of each side of the front of the head and between them there is a pair of dark brown colored pair of oversized mandibles that look like antlers, on some parts of eastern Europe it is believed that the 'antlers' have aphrodisiac properties