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Scarab Beetle - Onthophagus taurus - male

Scarab Beetle - Onthophagus taurus - Male
Plum Island, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
October 31, 2007
Size: 9mm
Found on the sand a couple feet above the waterline at the beach.

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Scarab Beetle - Onthophagus taurus - male Scarab Beetle - Onthophagus taurus - male

Thanks Margarethe and Jim
for identifications on both male and female.

Margarethe's ID for this one is correct.
However, I think the other one is a female of the same species.

Onthophagus taurus
So not the male of the otherone

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