Odontolabis gazella gazella

Distribution:

Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia (?)

Breeding hints:

Odontolabis is a very easy to breed species for which I had written a very detailed breeding report that can be found on this website under the breeding report section.

Odontolabis gazella is a very interesting species, as there seems to be no telodont form (I have seen a picture that claimed to be of the telodont form, but even then it is a one in a million chance to actually get one of these :-)) The right and the left mandible are never identical, unlike most other Lucanidae. I have bred this species through a few generations and, if I remember right, in the forth generation I had a small percentage of males with black markings in the middle od the elytrae, much like the females.

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Specimen Pictures:

Odontolabis gazella gazella male, Thailand © B.Harink

Pictures of living specimen:

Odontolabis gazella gazella male, F1, Malaysia © B.Harink

Odontolabis gazella gazella group, F2, Malaysia © B.Harink

Odontolabis gazella gazella female, F2, Malaysia © B.Harink

Odontolabis gazella gazella Larva, L3, F1, Malaysia © B.Harink

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