Chiasognathus grantii

The male's oversized jaws are crucial in its objective to secure a mate. It climbs trees, often climbing many meters, searching for a female. As it climbs and searches for females, it also seeks out other males in the vicinity. When two males meet, they fight. Males use their jaws in combat: they hook them under the opposite beetle's wings, pull up and throw their opponent to the ground (from 20 meters above, as they are in great trees most of the time).{{cite video| people = David Attenborough (narrator)| title = Life: Darwin Beetle Tosses Rivals | url = http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/life-darwin-beetle-tosses-rivals.html | medium = Television production| publisher =Life Series, BBC/Life: Insects, The Discovery Channel, Discovery Communications, LLC}} Charles Darwin collected the species in Chile during the second voyage of HMS Beagle, and, despite the enlarged mandibles of the males, he noted that the jaws were "not so strong as to produce pain to finger".{{cite web |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/departmental-collections/museum-treasures/entomology/index.html |title=Entomology treasures |publisher=Natural History Museum |accessdate=November 22, 2009}}{{cite journal |url=http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F1830&viewtype=text&pageseq=1 |author=Kenneth G. V. Smith |year=1987 |title=Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) |series=Historical Series |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=1–143 |doi=10.5962/p.314519 |accessdate=November 22, 2009|doi-access=free }}

Chiasognathus grantii is one of the seven species belonging to the genus Chiasognathus.{{cite journal |author=M. J. Paulsen & Andrew B. T. Smith |year=2010 |title=Revision of the genus Chiasognathus Stephens of southern South America with the description of a new species (Coleoptera, Lucanidae, Lucaninae, Chiasognathini) |journal=ZooKeys |issue=43 |pages=33–63 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.43.397|doi-access=free }} It belongs to the subfamily Lucaninae, the largest subfamily in the stag beetle family Lucanidae. C. grantii is also known locally as {{lang|es|ciervo volante}}, {{lang|es|cantaria}}, and {{lang|es|cacho de cabra}} in Spanish and {{lang|arn|llico-llico}} in the Mapuche language.{{cite book |author=Charles Leonard Hogue |title=Latin American Insects and Entomology |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3CTf8bnlndwC |year=1993 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley and Los Angeles, California |isbn=978-0-520-07849-9 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3CTf8bnlndwC/page/n274 263]–264 |chapter=Chilean stag beetle}}

Synonyms of this species include:{{cite web|author=M. J. Paulsen|title=Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles: Chiasognathus grantii Stephens, 1832|url=http://museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Scarabaeoidea/Lucanidae/LUC/CHIA/grantii.html|accessdate=March 26, 2011|date=August 5, 2009|publisher=University of Nebraska State Museum - Division of Entomology|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180110120229/http://museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Scarabaeoidea/Lucanidae/LUC/CHIA/grantii.html|archive-date=January 10, 2018|url-status=dead}}

• Tetropthalma chiloensis Lesson, 1833
• Chiasognathus affinis Philippi in Philippi, 1859
• Chiasognathus pygmaeus Dallas, 1933
• Chiasognathus brevidens Germain, 1911 (nomen nudum)
• Chiasognathus granti Ruby red, 2023（Dr. Li Zhicheng Published in the 2023 International Journal of Nature）

File:Lucanidae - Chiasognathus grantii-001.JPG. Males and female. Mounted specimen]]Chiasognathus grantii is very variable in size and in the development of the jaws and exhibits a strong sexual dimorphism. Males can reach a length of {{convert|60|-|90|mm}} including the mandibles, while females are much smaller, having a body length of {{convert|25|-|37|mm}}. The upper mandibles of the males are very robust at the base, finely serrated and longer than the body itself. The eyes are small and the antennae have a whorl of hairs at the apex. The thorax is broad and the anterior and posterior margins are densely ciliated with short pale hairs. Elytrae are chestnut-brown, with slightly greenish iridescent tinges and finely granulated.James Francis Stephens [https://books.google.com/books?id=Es0nAAAAYAAJ&dq=chiasognathus+granti+cupreo+refulgens&pg=PA6 A description of Chiasognathus grantii]

C. grantii is considered a rare and vulnerable species, with a risk of population declining.{{Cite journal|last1=Vergara|first1=Olivia|last2=Jerez|first2=Viviane|date=2009-12-01|title=Estado de conservación de Chiasognathus granti Stephens 1831 (Coleóptera: Lucanidae) en Chile|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250372542|journal=Revista Chilena de Historia Natural - REV CHIL HIST NAT|volume=82|issue=4|doi=10.4067/S0716-078X2009000400010|doi-access=free}} The adults of these beetles primarily feed on tree juices, while the larvae eat dead wood.

Chiasognathus grantii lives in temperate/subantarctic Nothofagus forests.

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Category:Lucaninae

Category:Beetles of South America

Category:Beetles described in 1831