Larvae feed on humus formed by rotten soil or rotten wood, and adults also feed on tree sap or mature fruits from tree wounds. The life cycle is about 1 year. Often kept as pets.
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Because of its representativeness, in Japanese, unicorn (カブトムシシシシ) is almost the consent word of collembola, and all the beetles of collembola subfamily are called "unicorns/collembola", such as the Japanese subspecies unicorn (scientific name: Trypoxylus d. septentrionalis or.
Nymphs (scientific name: psyllid) are called "ヒメョカブト". Influenced by the Japanese, other beetles in Taiwan Province Province are informally called Kirin Fairy, but in other Chinese-speaking areas, such a general term is not common.
The scientific name Allomyrina is a synonym for Trypoxylus, and some scholars advocate that it be divided into subgenera.
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