# Xylotrupes socrates (Siamese rhinoceros beetle)

- By: Basile Morin
- Date: 2018-10-16
- Classification: Photograph
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xylotrupes_socrates_(Siamese_rhinoceros_beetle).jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/3/38/Xylotrupes_socrates_%28Siamese_rhinoceros_beetle%29.jpg/1920px-Xylotrupes_socrates_%28Siamese_rhinoceros_beetle%29.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Xylotrupes socrates (Siamese rhinoceros beetle, or "fighting beetle"), male, on a banana leaf, Focus stacking from 23 images. This scarab beetle is particularly known for its role in insect fighting in Northern Laos and Thailand.