Odontolabis

Odontolabis is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Lucanidae.

Description

The species of the genus Odontolabis are large (males up to 9 cm), oblong and shiny. Usually males have more or less enlarged head and jaws. The head and the pronotum usually are black, while elytra are often more or less brownish or yellowish. In some species the shape of the male's jaws have several different forms (polymorphism).

The species of this genus are native to Southeast Asia.

List of selected species

There are approximately 61 species and subspecies in this genus:

Odontolabis alces (Fabricius, 1775) - Philippines

Odontolabis antilope von Rothenburg, 1901 - Borneo, Sumatra

Odontolabis brookeana (Vollenhoven, 1861) - Borneo, Sumatra, Java

Odontolabis burmeisteri (Hope, 1841) - India

Odontolabis camela (Olivier, 1789) - Philippines

Odontolabis castelnaudi Parry, 1862 - Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra

Odontolabis cuvera Hope, 1842 – India, Vietnam

Odontolabis dalmani (Hope & Westwood, 1845) - Sumatra

Odontolabis delesserti (Guérin-Méneville, 1843) - India

Odontolabis eremicola Mollenkamp, 1905 - Borneo

Odontolabis femoralis Waterhouse, 1887 – Thailand, Borneo

Odontolabis gazella (Fabricius, 1787) - Philippines, Malaya, Borneo, Sumatra

Odontolabis hitam Nagai, 1986 - Sumatra

Odontolabis imperialis Mollenkamp, 1904 - Philippines, Sarawak, Sabah

Odontolabis lacordairei (Vollenhoven, 1861) - Sumatra

Odontolabis latipennis (Hope & Westwood, 1845) - Malaya

Odontolabis leuthneri Boileau, 1897 - Borneo

Odontolabis lowei Parry, 1873 - Borneo, Sumatra, Java

Odontolabis ludekingi (Vollenhoven, 1861) – Malaya, Sumatra

Odontolabis macrocephala Lacroix, 1984 - Thailand, Vietnam

Odontolabis micros de Lisle, 1970 - Sulawesi

Odontolabis mollenkampi Fruhstorfer, 1898 - Sumatra

Odontolabis mouhoti Parry, 1864 - Indochina

Odontolabis pareoxa Bomans & Ratti, 1973 - India

Odontolabis picea Bomans, 1986 - Sumatra

Odontolabis platynota (Hope & Westwood, 1845) - Burma, Laos, Vietnam

Odontolabis quadrimaculata Kriesche, 1920 - Sumatra

Odontolabis relucens Mollenkamp, 1900 - Sumatra

Odontolabis sinensis (Westwood, 1848) - Southwestern China

Odontolabis siva (Hope & Westwood, 1845) – India, Taiwan, Malaya, Viet Nam

Odontolabis sommeri Parry, 1862 – Borneo, Sumatra

Odontolabis spectabilis Boileau, 1902 - Sumatra

Odontolabis stevensi Thomson, 1862 – Sulawesi, Timor

Odontolabis versicolor (Didier, 1931) - India

Odontolabis vollenhoveni Parry, 1864 - Borneo

Odontolabis wollastoni Parry, 1864 – Malaya, Sumatra

Odontolabis yasuokai Mizunuma, 1994 - Sumatra

References

Lucanidae genera