Biology:Odontolabis

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Odontolabis
Lucanidae - Odontolabis delesserti.JPG
Odontolabis delesserti, adult female and male from National Museum (Prague)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Lucanidae
Genus: Odontolabis
Hope, 1842

Odontolabis is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Lucanidae.

Description

The species of the genus Odontolabis are large (males up to 9 cm), oblong and shiny. Usually males have more or less enlarged head and jaws. The head and the pronotum usually are black, while elytra are often more or less brownish or yellowish. In some species the shape of the male's jaws have several different forms (polymorphism).[1]

The species of this genus are native to Southeast Asia.

List of selected species

There are approximately 61 species and subspecies in this genus:

  • Odontolabis alces (Fabricius, 1775) - Philippines
  • Odontolabis antilope von Rothenburg, 1901 - Borneo, Sumatra
  • Odontolabis brookeana (Vollenhoven, 1861) - Borneo, Sumatra, Java
  • Odontolabis burmeisteri (Hope, 1841) - India
  • Odontolabis camela (Olivier, 1789) - Philippines
  • Odontolabis castelnaudi Parry, 1862 - Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra
  • Odontolabis cuvera Hope, 1842 – India, Vietnam
  • Odontolabis dalmani (Hope & Westwood, 1845) - Sumatra
  • Odontolabis delesserti (Guérin-Méneville, 1843) - India
  • Odontolabis eremicola Mollenkamp, 1905 - Borneo
  • Odontolabis femoralis Waterhouse, 1887 – Thailand, Borneo
  • Odontolabis gazella (Fabricius, 1787) - Philippines , Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra
  • Odontolabis hitam Nagai, 1986 - Sumatra
  • Odontolabis imperialis Mollenkamp, 1904 - Philippines , Sarawak, Sabah
  • Odontolabis lacordairei (Vollenhoven, 1861) - Sumatra
  • Odontolabis latipennis (Hope & Westwood, 1845) - Malaya
  • Odontolabis leuthneri Boileau, 1897 - Borneo
  • Odontolabis lowei Parry, 1873 - Borneo, Sumatra, Java
  • Odontolabis ludekingi (Vollenhoven, 1861) – Malaya, Sumatra
  • Odontolabis macrocephala Lacroix, 1984 - Thailand, Vietnam
  • Odontolabis micros de Lisle, 1970 - Sulawesi
  • Odontolabis mollenkampi Fruhstorfer, 1898 - Sumatra
  • Odontolabis mouhoti Parry, 1864 - Indochina
  • Odontolabis pareoxa Bomans & Ratti, 1973 - India
  • Odontolabis picea Bomans, 1986 - Sumatra
  • Odontolabis platynota (Hope & Westwood, 1845) - Burma, Laos, Vietnam
  • Odontolabis quadrimaculata Kriesche, 1920 - Sumatra
  • Odontolabis relucens Mollenkamp, 1900 - Sumatra
  • Odontolabis sinensis (Westwood, 1848) - Southwestern China[2]
  • Odontolabis siva (Hope & Westwood, 1845) – India , Taiwan, Malaya, Viet Nam
  • Odontolabis sommeri Parry, 1862 – Borneo, Sumatra
  • Odontolabis spectabilis Boileau, 1902 - Sumatra
  • Odontolabis stevensi Thomson, 1862 – Sulawesi, Timor
  • Odontolabis versicolor (Didier, 1931) - India
  • Odontolabis vollenhoveni Parry, 1864 - Borneo
  • Odontolabis wollastoni Parry, 1864 – Malaya, Sumatra
  • Odontolabis yasuokai Mizunuma, 1994 - Sumatra
Odontolabis stevensi

References

  1. Matsumoto, Keita; Knell, Robert J. (2017-12-01). "Diverse and complex male polymorphisms in Odontolabis stag beetles (Coleoptera: Lucanidae)" (in en). Scientific Reports 7 (1): 16733. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17115-5. ISSN 2045-2322. PMID 29196728. 
  2. Ying, Ying; Zhan, Zhixiong; Wan, X. (2021). "New color patterns and new synonym of Odontolabis sinensis (Westwood, 1848) (Coleoptera: Lucanidae): insights from a multilocus phylogeny and species delimitation.". Zootaxa 4926 (2): 263–275. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4926.2.6. PMID 33756751. 

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