Brand: Scenic City Oddities
Insect Type: beetle
Type: speciemen
Material: biological
Handmade: Yes
i44a This a beautiful Xylotrupes gideon sumatrensis species fighting beetle. This guy is amazing! These are packaged to keep the beetle safe in shipping. They would be a great asset to any collection or a great educational piece. 75mm-Large!
This specimen is approx. 3 1/4" x 1 1/2".
Species: Xylotrupes gideon sumatrensis
Species: Xylotrupes gideon sumatrensis
Xylotrupes gideon can reach a length of 3.5–7 centimetres (1.4–2.8 in). As usual with rhinoceros beetles there is a great difference between the genders. Males are larger than females. They have two chitinous bifurcated horns, a thick thoracic horn and a smaller cephalic horn, which they use to eliminate their rivals during the mating period. These beetles are shiny dark red, dark brown, or black in coloration. The eyes are located on each side of the head. When disturbed these beetles make a hissing noise, produced by rubbing the tip of the abdomen against the edge the elytra.
The larvae develop in decaying vegetable matter and take usually two years in development, the adult beetles live 2–4 months. A female can lay about 20-30 eggs but it depends on the place where they lived .
