| Male Distribution and habitat [ ] Populations of D | After the third instar stage, the stage lasts about 32 days, where it will transition into an adult |
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| The Online Guide to the Animals of Trinidad and Tobago | Females have an average gestation period of 30 days from copulation to egg-laying, and may lay up to 100 eggs on the ground or on dead wood |
| Once hatched, the stage of the Hercules beetle may last up to two years in duration, where it will go through 3 metamorphosis stages, also known as | Relationship to the environment [ ] Dynastes hercules is a beneficial contributor to the rain forest , primarily during their larval stage where they are saproxylophagous |
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| Behavior [ ] Within their native rain forest habitats, the adult beetles, which are nocturnal, forage for fruit at night and hide or burrow within the leaf litter during the day | Dynastes hercules takakuwai Nagai, 2002• Known populations include the Lesser Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru |
The species versus subspecies conundrum: quantitative delimitation from integrating multiple data types within a single bayesian approach in Hercules beetles.
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