2018年7月1日 星期日

大自然生態觀察:Single-Horned Immortals

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Scientific Classfication / 科學分類

Kingdom (): Animalia (動物界)
Phylum (): Arthropoda (節肢動物門)
Class (): Insecta (昆蟲綱)
Order (): Coleoptera (鞘翅目)
Family (): Scarabaeidae (金龜子科)
Subfamily (亞科): Dynastinae (兜蟲亞科)
Genus (): Allomyrina (叉犀金龜屬)
Species (): A. dichotoma (雙叉犀金龜/獨角仙)
Subspecies (亞種): A. d. tunobosonis (分布於台灣的獨角仙,屬於此亞種 ......)

The day before yesterday my wife and I took a walk along the trail (中心壠步道) that leads to Taiwan Provincial Council Memorial Park (省議會紀念園區). When walking down the steep slope of the mountain, we were surprised to see such a couple of beetles on the trunk of a tree; in our language, they are called 獨角仙, which literally means "Single-Horned Immortal(s)." -- Look! Only the male has a horn; the female has none.

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