Eupatorus
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Eupatorus is a genus of beetles in the family of scarab beetles in the superfamily of Scarabaeoidea .
Appearance
Eupatorus species are large (40 - 100 millimeters), bright and smooth giant beetles. The pronotum and legs are black, the wings are often more or less yellowish brown. As is common with horn beetles (Dynastinae), the males are much larger than the females and have strong horns on the head and pronotum, which the females lack. In this genus there is usually a long horn on the head and two horns on either side of the pronotum, these are curved, smooth and pointed. The middle horn pair of the pronotum can be reduced to sharp nodules. The front legs have three teeth at the tip on the outside.
Life
distribution
This genus is widespread in Southeast Asia:
- Eupatorus birmanicus Arrow , 1908 - Myanmar
- Eupatorus endoi Nagai , 1999 - Vietnam
- Eupatorus gracilicornis - five-horned beetle , Arrow , 1908 - India ( Assam ), Thailand , Laos , Vietnam ( Tonkin )
- Eupatorus hardwickei ( Hope , 1831) - Himalaya , India ( Sikkim ), Bhutan , Nepal , Vietnam (Tonkin)
- Eupatorus siamensis ( Laporte de Castelnau , 1867) - Thailand, Vietnam ( Annam , Cochinchina )
- Eupatorus sukkiti Miyashita & Arnaud , 1997 - Myanmar, PR China ( Yunnan )
cycle
The life cycle , described for the Eupatorus gracilicornis : The adult beetle's flight, mating and egg-laying time is in autumn, after which it dies. The eggs are laid in dead wood . The larval stage lasts up to two years.
Danger
- IUCN classification
The Eupatorus species are not included in the IUCN's Red List of Endangered Species .
- Other hazards
Eupatorus gracilicornis is considered edible in Thailand . The male specimens are collected because of the decorative horns and bred for it.
photos
Eupatorus hardwickei cantori
Eupatorus birmanicus
Eupatorus gracilicornis
five-horned beetle ( w )
Eupatorus beсcari
Eupatorus siamensis
( m )
Eupatorus fruhstorferi
Systematics
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literature
- Bisby FA, Roskov YR, Orrell TM, Nicolson D., Paglinawan LE, Bailly N., Kirk PM, Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D .: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalog of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist. Ed .: Species 2000. Reading, UK. September 24, 2012 ( catalogueoflife.org ).
Web links
other projects
General Pages
- Catalog of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist. ETI BioInformatics, accessed November 6, 2018 .
Video
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burmeister, HCC: Handbook of Entomology . 5 Special Entomology. Continuation. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Xylophila et Pectinicornia. Reimer, Berlin 1847, p. viii, 268, 584 , doi : 10.5962 / bhl.title.8135 .
- ^ Catalog of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist. ETI BioInformatics, accessed November 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Eupatorus metrics. Global Biodiversity Information Facility, accessed on November 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Five horn beetle: The impressive scarab beetle in portrait. In: Das-Tierlexikon.de. August 20, 2017, accessed on February 19, 2019 (German).
- ↑ a b Duang: ด้วง กว่า ง ซาง เหนือ แมลง สวยงาม ที่ กำลัง มี อันตราย (beautiful beetles are endangered). Siamensi, October 21, 2010; accessed October 11, 2018 (Thai).
- ↑ Red List of Threatened Species 2018-1. Retrieved October 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Jun Mitsuhashi: Edible Insects of the World . 2016, ISBN 978-1-4987-5657-0 (English).
- ↑ We sell best quality alive beetles, insect. Kingdom of Beetle Taiwan, accessed October 12, 2018 .