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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Longhorn, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles (Scarabaeoidea) » Earth-Boring Dung Beetles (Geotrupidae) » Geotrupinae » Geotrupes » Eger's Earth Boring Beetle (Geotrupes egeriei)
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scarab? - Geotrupes egeriei
Copyright © 2005 tom murray

scarab? - Geotrupes egeriei
Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
May 14, 2005
Size: 14mm
I found this and several other species of beetles dead but undamaged on a dirt trail in the Miles Standish State Forest.
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Contributed by tom murray on 16 May, 2005 - 7:24am

Geotrupes egeriei
The very convex shape is a give away. Keep looking you have a couple other spp. up there that the guide could use.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 16 May, 2005 - 9:34am login or register to post comments

 
sooner or later
I'll get more of the scarabs. I photograph all sorts of bugs, but the beetles are my favorite.
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