Chinese flat spade score: 3
Chinese abbreviation: Zhongbian
Latin name: Dorcus titanus platymelus
Body type: Large
Breeding Difficulty:★****
Adult lifespan: 6 to 24 months
Larval stage: May to September
Country of origin: China
Cloth: North China, East China, Northeast China, South China, Taiwan
The typical subspecies of the flat spade, also known as the Chinese flat spade (referred to as the middle flat), is widely distributed in China, and it is also the most common spade nail species, with medium to large body size. It is commonly found in trees of the broad-leaved forest shell family, such as elms, oaks, goji trees, and willow trees, etc., and adults often live in sapy tree holes during the day; Likes nocturnal activities, has phototropism; Season occurs from April to October.
Male worms
Male insects are generally between 30 and 75 mm in length, the maximum individual can reach 90 mm +, the body color is black brown, shiny, the body size is broad and flattened, the large male has a well-developed jaw and a long serrated area on the medial side, and the large eosnocosis has a longer tooth process near the end, and the small one is absent.
Females are more common in length of 25 to 40 mm , with shiny wing sheaths and concave and convex notches on the head.
It is preferable to use hardwood or medium-hard decay wood for artificial breeding; Artificially raised larvae can be raised using fermented wood chips or fungal bottles, and the best feeding effect is the use of fungal bottles, with a temperature of 20 to 26 degrees, which can breed large individual adults.
Note: Here our Latin scientific name still uses the Japanese classification, according to the latest domestic classification, the spade has independently become the genus of the spade, genus name: Serrognathus, a total of 9 species (including subspecies). According to the classification in the "Chinese Spade 2", there are a total of 7 subspecies of the spade in China, namely: typical subspecies of the spade (middle flat), northeast subspecies of the spade (tsushima), Taiwan subspecies of the spade, and the subspecies of the spade (southwest
Flat), flat spade Vietnamese subspecies, flat spade ink despecies, flat spade Banna subspecies, of which the mote subspecies and Banna subspecies are unnamed subspecies. At present, the classification differences between China and Japan on flat spades are shown in the following comparison chart.
Mother worms
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