Time for another update, this time on a beautiful Chinese species from Giangxi, China: Kirchnerius guangxii. This relatively new genus has only been described by Schenk in 2009, since then a few more species have been added to it. For instance, the beetle formerly known as Prosopocoilus spencei, is now called Kirchnerius spencei. Looking at […]
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I want to start reporting about my breeding projects with some more frequency again. I think a good one to start with is Leptinopterus burmeisteri. This species is from Bahia in Brasil, and was considered quite rare. Specimen were rarely on offer and if they were, the would have been really expensive. They are relatively […]
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Finally, my new book on beetle breeding is printed and ready to be shared. After working on two editions of a German book on beetle breeding (Exotische Käfer – Pflege und Zucht by Benjamin Harink), I felt it was high time to write a more complete version with more images and above all in English. […]
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I have recently started again to breed Odontolabis burmeisteri, one of the emperors of Lucanidae. It’s a majestic species that has the potential to get over 10cm in size, and it is in the more beautiful Odontolabis category, where the elytra are black and yellow. That said, they also have really nice mandibles, so what […]
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This is a short breeding update by my friend Kay the Guru on Odontolabis dalmanni intermedia. I think it is really interesting for several reasons. First of all, Japanese breeders are already quite advanced when it comes to substrates and more and more started looking into temperature effects when trying to achieve maximum size Lucanidae. […]
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And yet another post on another stag beetle species, seems I am on a roll these days 🙂 Prosopocoilus biplagiatus is a smallish stag beetle species, which looks similar to Prosopocoilus inquinatus and some other small Prosopocoilus species from Asia. That said it is a fascinating species for me mainly for two reasons: It is […]
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Time to write about my experiences with this interesting species in the genus Prosopocoilus. Strangely, they are not too popular when one browses the Internet for hot beetles that have become established as popular pets. Prosopocoilus bison should be, as they are, like many other in the genus, very undemanding and easy to reproduce. Prosopocolius […]
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This is a short post about a seriously underrated and overlooked stag beetle species: Prosopocoilus suturalis. Prosopocoilus suturalis is a relatively small species, males measure up to 5 cm, They have a nice sulphur-yellow coloration, which fades into more brownish when dead. This makes specimen look rather dull, and different from what they look like […]
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This report about my experiences with Odontolabis gazella is based on data I collected from 1999 until now. I got two males and 4 females on the 12.06.99. They had been caught in the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia. The males were about 65 mm in size and the females about 40 mm. I divided them […]
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Long time back, when I was still studying, I somehow had the goal to have a specimen collection of all Taiwanese and Japanese Lucanidae. I got quite far, what is still missing are small species like the different Aegus subspecies of Japan, and some Platycerus, and Rhaetulus crenatus recticornis. It used to annoy me to […]
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