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Bolitotherus cornutus is a North American species of darkling beetle known as the horned fungus beetle [1] or forked fungus beetle. [2] All of its life stages are associated with the fruiting bodies of a wood-decaying shelf fungus , commonly Ganoderma applanatum , [ 2 ] Ganoderma tsugae , [ 2 ] and Ganoderma lucidum .
The highest confirmed weight of an adult insect is 71 g (2.5 oz) for a gravid female giant weta, Deinacrida heteracantha, [2] although it is likely one of the elephant beetles, Megasoma elephas and Megasoma actaeon, or goliath beetles, both of which can commonly exceed 50 g (1.8 oz) and 10 cm (3.9 in), can reach a greater weight. [2]
An insect named in Greek "σίλφη" (silphe) has been identified with the cockroach, though the scientific name Silpha refers to a genus of carrion beetles. It is mentioned by Aristotle , saying that it sheds its skin; it is described as foul-smelling in Aristophanes ' play Peace ; Euenus called it a pest of book collections, being "page ...