arthropod YINGJIANG red back-winged circle Lucanidae
Neolucanus robust
Yingjiang red-backed round-winged stag beetle, belonging to Arthropod, Insecta, Coleoptera, Stag beetle, Cycloptera. They often live in rainforests or monsoon forests with high temperature and high humidity. It is mainly distributed in Yunnan and other places in China. The photo was taken at Honghe .
In nature, it is known that stag beetle males in different regions will evolve different lengths and different shapes of upper jaws according to specific environments. Only in terms of length, there are large, medium and small upper jaws. In general, large and medium upper jaws are mostly antler-shaped, while small upper jaws are more like vise. The upper jaw of the Yingjiang red back round-winged stag beetle is a small upper jaw, but unlike the Chinese Austrian stag beetle introduced in the previous issue, it has no morphological differentiation of the upper jaw.
body color,The head, chest and three pairs of walking feet of Yingjiang red back round-winged stag beetle are lacquer black, and there is a kind of luster from leather shoes that have just been smeared with black shoe polish and polished. The elytra on the abdomen is brownish red or reddish brown, and it is also shiny, like noble mahogany furniture.
In , the Yingjiang red-backed round-winged stag beetle is not very large, it is a medium-sized species, and its males can reach more than 3 cm, and the extreme individuals will not More than 5 cm. The female is slightly smaller than the male. Like all Stag beetle species, the female is unremarkable. Think of it as an enlarged cockchafer .
The stag beetle is a "gladiator" in the insect world. The male Yingjiang red-backed round-winged stag beetle also has aggressive "blood" flowing in it, and often fights for a mate in the wild. , Territory, and food.
Stag beetle is one of the most important decomposers in nature. Its larvae generally hide in decaying wood or soil and feed on humus, which accelerates the growth of rotten wood and fallen leaves in nature. Decomposition speed. Although adult insects are phytophagous insects, they do not harm plants. Their diet is mainly the sap secreted from trees and the fermented fruits after landing.
Fan Yi, ecological photographer. Won the Grand Prize of the International Garden Photographers Annual Contest for 4 consecutive years,Won the first prize in the Wild Fauna and Flora category of the first China Ecological Photography Contest in 2018. Committed to photographing the cultural landscape and the beauty of biodiversity in western China, especially in Yunnan.
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