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
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