Real Chinese Golden Stag Beetle – Odontolabis cuvera chinesis (Male) specimen encased in clear lucite material. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put real beetle right at your fingertips! Anyone can safely explore the beetle from every angle.

It is clear enough for microscope observation.

Length of the beetle body is 5.8 cm (2.3 inch).

Size of the lucite block is 7.3x4.0x2.0 cm (2.9x1.6x0.8 inch).

Each one comes with a cardboard box for easy storage.

Weight of the block is 100 g and 125 g with packing box.

This is a handmade real animal specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item for every body.

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Chinese Golden Stag Beetle – Odontolabis cuvera chinesis

Distribution: SW of China

Body length: Male:34-79 mm Female:34-48 mm

Stag beetles are a group of about 1,200 species of beetle in the family Lucanidae. Some species grow to 8 cm (3¼ in), but most are about 5 cm (2 in).

The English name is derived from the large and distinctive mandibles found on the males of most species, which resemble the antlers of stags.

A well-known species in much of Europe is Lucanus cervus, referred to in Britain as "the" stag beetle (it is the largest British terrestrial insect). Pliny the Elder noted that Nigidius called the stag beetle lucanus after the Italian region of Lucania where they were used as amulets. The scientific name of Lucanus cervus is this word, plus cervus, deer.

Male stag beetles use their jaws to wrestle each other for favoured mating sites, but despite their often fearsome appearance they are not normally aggressive to humans. Stag beetles are sometimes used in the Chinese sport of insect fighting.

Female stag beetles are usually smaller than the males, with mandibles in normal proportion for a beetle.

The larvae feed for several years on rotting wood, growing into grubs which in larger species may be as big as a human finger.