five-horned Rhinoceros Beetle
Eupatorus gracilicornis
Insecta
RARE
Stats
- Lifespan
- 1-2 years
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- Southeast Asia
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Armor
- Status
- Rare
About
The five-horned rhinoceros beetle is a large beetle with four large horns on its thorax and one extra-long horn on its head. These beetles have a distinctive horn-like structure on their mandibles.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA small egg is laid on or near the larval food source and hatches within days or weeks.
- 2.juvenileAn immature insect feeds and molts, growing through successive instars.
- 3.subadultA near-adult insect has wing buds or near-mature form, one molt away from full size.
- 4.adultFully grown, with full wings and adult coloration.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Eupatorus
- Species
- Eupatorus gracilicornis