Horned elephant

"I caught an elephant beetle! The heavyweight champion!"

Donating to the Museum
When donated to the Museum, Blathers the curator will say, "True to its namesake, the elephant beetle is among the heaviest of all the dynastid beetles. As you might imagine, with parents that big, the babies are also accordingly huge. About the size of your fist! Such foulness! Just think of those monstrous larvae! The horror of it all!"

It will sit on a tree stump where it will fight with the Golden Stag Beetle when that has been donated to the Museum. They will tip each other over and can be found in the bottom-left hand corner of the Museum.

In-game encyclopedia
According to the in-game encyclopedia, the elephant beetle is available in the summer months, during nighttime and morning, and is about 115 mm in length. The heaviest beetles in the world are named for their trunklike horns.

Further Information
Classified with the Rhinoceros Beetle.