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Allomyrina dichotoma female🪲

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SpeciesColeopteraScarabaeidae
Arthropods

🪲Japanese rhinoceros beetle

Trypoxylus dichotomus (Linnaeus, 1771)

獨角仙（學名：Trypoxylus dichotomus ），又稱為雙叉犀金龜，是一種體型較大的金龜子科兜蟲亞科的甲蟲，雄性成蟲的頭部長有一支兩邊對稱、雙分叉的巨型犄角，前胸背板則有一個分叉的小胸角。主要分佈在日本本州以南、臺灣、華中、華南及朝鮮半島等地，屬於常見物種。是最具代表性的兜蟲之一。

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Trypoxylus dichotomus
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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderColeoptera
  5. ›familyScarabaeidae
  6. ›genusTrypoxylus
  7. ›speciesTrypoxylus dichotomus
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  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderBeetles · Coleoptera
  3. subfamilyDynastinae
  4. genusTrypoxylus
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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. genusTrypoxylus
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カブトムシ (ja), 双叉犀金龟 (zh), Allomyrina dichotoma (fr), ด้วงกว่างญี่ปุ่น (th), Allomyrina dichotoma (pt), Japoński rohatyniec dwurożny (pl) … and 14 more languages
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