Caucasus beetle
The Caucasus beetle is a giant, shiny black beetle with huge curved horns. It is one of the biggest beetles in all of Asia. Only the males have the enormous horns, and they use them like swords.
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Fun facts
Two males fight with their horns to win a female, a bit like knights in a tournament.
A male can be up to 13 centimetres long, more than twice as long as a female.
The female has no big horns, and her wing cases feel like velvet because they are covered in tiny hairs.
It looks a lot like the Atlas beetle. You can tell them apart by a small tooth on the Caucasus beetle's lower horn.
A grown-up beetle lives only 3 to 5 months, but as a grub it lives underground for 12 to 15 months.
Most asked questions about Caucasus beetle
?How big is the Caucasus beetle?
Males are 9 to 13 centimetres long, which makes it one of the biggest beetles in Asia. Females are about 5 to 6 centimetres.
?Where does the Caucasus beetle live?
Despite its name, it lives in Southeast Asia, in Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Java.
?Is the Caucasus beetle dangerous?
No. Its horns are only for fighting other males.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chalcosoma chiron
- Group
- Beetles
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Coleoptera > Scarabaeidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Chalcosoma chiron (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 round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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