Oval Dome paperweight (Gray Longhorn Beetle - Clear)

Real Gray Longhorn Beetle - Batocera hercules specimen encased in clear lucite material. The specimen is crystal clear, transparent and indestructible. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put the Beetle right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the Beetle from every angle. 

Length of the beetle body is 41 mm (1.6 inch).

Size of the oval dome is 87x65 mm (3.4x2.6 inch) and height is 30 mm (1.2 inch).

Weight of the dome is 130 gram and 160 gram with packing box.

It is a beautiful dome paperweight and is also a very good collectible item for every body.

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 a very good collectible item for every body. 

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Gray Longhorn Beetle - Batocera hercules

Order: Coleoptera Family: Cerambycidae Subfamily: Lamiinae Tribe: Monochamini Genus: Anoplophora Species: B. hercules

Distribution:
China, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia

This large Batocera normally has a body length from about 4.0 cm to 8.5 cm. Although normally somewhat gray, the Celebes specimens can be almost white.

This lifeform is found widely in the Indo-Australian region.

Batocera genus is found primarily from northern India east into Japan and from northern India south throughout Malaysia and Indonesia into New Guinea, the Solomons and Australia. The genus has minor representation in Africa. This genus contains some of the largest and most impressive beetles in the world. A large male of either Batocera kibleri or Batocera wallacei is a sight to behold. Other species are also magnificient. In l980 and 1982 Jacques Rigout published two books on the Batocerini tribe. At that time he counted 47 species in the genus Batocera.