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Patent-leather beetle
Near Kota Kinabatangan River, Borneo, Malaysia
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Passalidae
Genus:
Odontotaenius
Species:
O. disjunctus
Binomial name
Odontotaenius disjunctus
(Illiger, 1800)
Synonyms
Passalus disjunctus
Popilius disjunctus
Passalus cornutus Fabricius, 1801
Odontotaenius disjunctus
Odontotaenius disjunctus, the patent-leather beetle or horned passalus, is a saproxylic beetle in the family Passalidae (bess beetles) which can grow to just over an inch-and-a-half long, weigh 1-2 grams and are capable of pulling 50 times their own weight.[1] They have been used to study several aspects of general family characteristics since the early 1900s but remain a relatively unknown species within the diverse Coleoptera order.
^Davis, Andrew K. (2014). "Lifting Capacity of Horned Passalus Beetles During Passive and Stressed States". Journal of Insect Behavior. 27 (4): 496–502. doi:10.1007/s10905-014-9444-6. ISSN 0892-7553. S2CID 254704541.
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