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Blue dung beetle

Family Scarabidae

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Sergio Monteiro
I had an analogic Olimpus with interchangeable lenses, but it was so expensive to reveal pictures way back then that I rarely used it. Now, digital cameras are a gift from heaven. I am having more fun than I deserve. :-)
MartinL
Scarab beetles are actually quite distinctive because their legs and toes are different too and they are often horned. Maybe i'm just picking on you because your photos areso good but our cameras are really quite similar =) (mine is a fuji finepix s2950 compact)
Sergio Monteiro
Thank you, Martin. Your right, of course. One more thing for me to look at from now on.
MartinL
The lamellate antennae are typical of scarabidae. This is a dung beetle (Scarabidae) and not a leaf beetle (Chrysomelidae). If you check your leaf beetles they have serrate or filiform antennae http://entomologyryk.blogspot.com/2010_09_01_archive.html
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2012

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