male? A female? Unusual stag display of male and female bodies Kochi Shimanto September 26, 15:13
A rare stag beetle with half of its body male and half female is displayed at a facility in Shimanto City, Kochi Prefecture.
At the “Gakuyukan” in the Dragonfly Nature Park in Shimanto City, Kochi Prefecture, the “Moserio Ugon Onigakugata” inhabiting Malaysia etc. is about 4 cm long.
A man from Moriguchi, Osaka, grew up from an egg and emerged in June.
The difference in length and color between the left and right jaws means that the male and female can be seen, so the left jaw is long and glossy and the female is that the right jaw is short and looks dark.
According to the Dragonfly Nature Park, the probability of the occurrence of “Moserio Ugon Onigakugata” in which half of the body is male and half is female is 1 / 40,000.
A girl in a 4th grade who lives nearby said, “It ’s strange. I want to know how I got this body.”
Mr. Mitsutoshi Sugimura, Managing Director of the “Association of Dragonfly and Nature” managing the facility, said, “It is an extremely rare stag beetle.
This stag exhibition was scheduled until the 29th of this month, but because of its popularity, the period was extended until the end of next month.