A dark, shiny beetle, one of the largest in the world; males up to 17 cm/7 in long, females smaller; adults nocturnal. It belongs to the rhinoceros beetle group, in which the males have a slender, recurved horn on their heads. (Order: Coleoptera. Family: Scarabeidae.)
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Dynastes hercules Linnaeus, 1758 |
The Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules) is the most famous of the rhinoceros beetles. Dynastes hercules lichyi Lachaume, 1985 Dynastes hercules morishimai Nagai, 2002 Dynastes hercules occidentalis Lachaume, 1985 Dynastes hercules paschoali Grossi and Arnaud, 1993 Dynastes hercules reidi Chalumeau, 1977 Dynastes hercules septentrionalis Lachaume, 1985 Dynastes hercules takakuwai Nagai, 2002 Dynastes hercules trinidadensis Chalumeau and Reid, 1995 Dynastes hercules tuxtlaensis Moron, 1993
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