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Elephant beetles are black in color and covered with a coat of fine microscopic hairs. The hairs grow particularly thick on the beetle's elytra. The hairs give the beetle's body a yellowish color. Males have two horns protruding from the head and another from the prothorax. The longest head horn gives the beetle its common name, since it ...
Dynastes tityus is known by a number of common names, including eastern Hercules beetle, elephant beetle and ox beetle. [1] It was first given a scientific name by Carl Linnaeus, in his 1763 work Centuria Insectorum, where it was called Scarabaeus tityus; when Linnaeus' genus Scarabaeus was divided into smaller genera, S. tityus was renamed Dynastes tityus.
Megasoma is a genus of rhinoceros beetles. Commonly known as the elephant beetles, ...
Heliocopris bucephalus, commonly known as the Elephant dung beetle, [1] is a species of dung beetle found in India, [2] Sri Lanka, ...
The highest confirmed weight of an adult insect is 71 g (2.5 oz) for a gravid female giant weta, Deinacrida heteracantha, [2] although it is likely one of the elephant beetles, Megasoma elephas and Megasoma actaeon, or goliath beetles, both of which can commonly exceed 50 g (1.8 oz) and 10 cm (3.9 in), can reach a greater weight. [2]
Composed of over 40,000 muscles, elephant trunks are as nimble as human hands, able to pick apples from a branch or rip an entire tree out of the ground. Their versatile design has also inspired a ...
Dynastinae or rhinoceros beetles are a subfamily of the scarab beetle family ... Megasoma elephas - Elephant beetle; Megasoma actaeon - Actaeon beetle; Xylotrupes ...
Credit: Getty Images From one quick search on the internet, you’ll find that there is no shortage of animal jokes. For example, you’ve probably already heard about the chicken who crossed the ...