kabuto-mushi カブトムシ

Translation

kabuto-mushi means "Rhinoceros Beetle" in English.

Rhinoceros Beetle of Japan

In Japan, Rhinoceros Beetles are Japanese, so the word kabuto-mushi カブトムシ normally refers to the Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle. The technical term for Rhinoceros Beetles in general, the subfamily Dynastinae, would be kabuto-mushi-aka カブトムシ亜科.^[1]

kabuto-mushi is normally written with katakana, as カブトムシ.
kabuto-mushi written with hiragana is かぶとむし.

kabuto-mushi written with kanji is 兜虫.
This word contains non-jouyou kanji 常用漢字.

kabuto-mushi may also be written as カブト虫 or 甲虫.

Allomyrina dichotomus, Trypoxylus dichotomus.

Scientific name: Allomyrina dichotoma.

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