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Dynastes hercules🪲

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SpeciesColeopteraScarabaeidae
Arthropods

🪲Hercules beetle

Dynastes hercules (Linnaeus, 1758)

ヘラクレスオオカブト（学名: Dynastes hercules）は、コウチュウ目（鞘翅目）コガネムシ科カブトムシ亜科カブトムシ族オオカブト属 Dynastes に属する昆虫の一種である。中央アメリカから南アメリカ、および小アンティル諸島に分布する。 世界で最も全長が長くなる甲虫としてギネス世界記録に認定されている種である。また世界で最も有名な昆虫の一つとも言われる。カブトムシおよび甲虫としては世界最大の種として著名で、最大個体はオスの成虫の場合、全長180 mm以上に達する。種小名 hercules はギリシア神話最大の英雄ヘラクレスに由来する。

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderColeoptera
  5. ›familyScarabaeidae
  6. ›genusDynastes
  7. ›speciesDynastes hercules
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  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderBeetles · Coleoptera
  3. subfamilyDynastinae
  4. genusDynastes
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumHexapoda
  4. classInsects · Insecta
  5. subclassPterygota
  6. orderBeetles · Coleoptera
  7. suborderPolyphaga
  8. infraorderScarabaeiformia
  9. superfamilyScarabaeoidea
  10. subfamilyDynastinae
  11. genusDynastes
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헤라클레스장수풍뎅이 (ko), Dynaste Hercule (fr), Dynastes hercules (es), herkulesbogár (hu), Dynastes hercules (it), Herkuleskäfer (de) … and 23 more languages
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