Hercules beetle
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q503799
Library of congress:
sh 00000320
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 99233354: Pinchon, P.R. Le dynaste hercule dans les Petites Antilles, 1976:p. 7 (Dynastes hercules (L.))
- Imms, A.D. IMMS' gen. textbook of entomol., c 1977:v. 1, p. 19 (beetle Dynastes hercules) v. 2, p. 816-817 (Dynastes hercules)
- University of Nebraska State Museum Division of Entomology website, Feb. 24, 2000(Dynastes hercules (Linnaeus); Hercules beetle)
- Web. 3(Hercules beetle)
- Random House(Hercules beetle)
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Wikipedia description:
The Hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules) is a species of rhinoceros beetle native to the rainforests of southern Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Lesser Antilles. It is the longest extant species of beetle in the world, and is also one of the largest flying insects in the world.
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