Five-horned Rhinoceros Beetle

Eupatorus gracilicornis

''Eupatorus gracilicornis'', the five-horned rhinoceros beetle is a beetle that has four large horns on the prothorax and one extra-long cephalic horn. Rhinoceros beetles, the Dynastinae, are a subfamily of the scarab beetle family.
Eupatorus gracilicornis or Five-Horned Rhinoceros beetle https://www.jungledragon.com/image/126748/5_horn_beetle.html Eupatorus gracilicornis,Geotagged,Thailand,Winter

Appearance

Its length is 50–95 mm. Its coloring is shiny jet-black, while the elytra or fore wings are colored yellow or gold. The body is covered by a thick exoskeleton and a pair of thick wing covers lay atop another set of membranous wings underneath, allowing the beetle to fly, although not very efficiently, owing to its large size.
Eupatorus gracilicornis or 5 horned beetle Eupatorus gracilicornis,Five-horned Rhinoceros Beetle,Geotagged,Thailand,Winter

Naming

It was first described by the British entomologist Gilbert John Arrow in 1908.

Distribution

The five-horned rhinoceros beetle has been found in China, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam.

Behavior

The flying season is usually in September, when most of the males usually appear to wait for copulation.

Food

As a larva, its diet is rotten wood. Its adult diet consists of nectar, plant sap and fruit.

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderColeoptera
FamilyScarabaeidae
GenusEupatorus
SpeciesEupatorus gracilicornis
Photographed in
Thailand