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Field Notes

Notes:

They called this species Hercules at the location

Species ID Suggestions

Elephant beetle

Megasoma elephas

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bayucca
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Comments (5)
bayucca
Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae, Dynastes sp., Megasoma elephas, male Elephant Beetle. I am not sure if in #3 the right one in front is a bigger female, followed by a smaller/younger male. Usually the males are quite bigger than the female. The females are lacking the impressive horns. You wanna see a real impressive horn?? The Hercules Beetle, Dynastes hercules from the same family/subfamily looks like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_beetle
Ashish
Raquel I have changed category to Arthropods in your favor.
Raquel Stevens
Hercules beetle, but I´m not sure if there´s another name
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PublishedJune 29, 2012

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