Golden stag beetle
The golden stag beetle is a big black beetle with wide orange edges on its wing cases. The males have a huge pair of jaws that stick out in front like deer antlers. The females look almost the same, but with short jaws.
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Fun facts
A big male can be 9 centimetres long with his jaws, about as long as a grown-up's finger.
Males come in three different shapes, with small, medium or big jaws. Only one other stag beetle in the world is known to do this.
The mums lay their eggs in fallen leaves and rotten wood.
In one kind that lives in China, the wing cases are almost all black with only a thin orange edge.
Most asked questions about Golden stag beetle
?How big is the golden stag beetle?
Males are 4 to 9 centimetres long with their jaws. Females are about 4 to 5 centimetres.
?Can a golden stag beetle pinch you?
A big male can pinch hard with his jaws if you grab him. It is best to just watch.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Odontolabis cuvera
- Named by
- Hope, 1842
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Lucanidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Lucanidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Odontolabis cuvera (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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