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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 » Baly's Earth Boring Beetle (Geotrupes balyi)
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large black chafer - Geotrupes balyi
Copyright © 2007 Chris Adam

large black chafer - Geotrupes balyi
Yoho Lake, York County, New Brunswick, Canada
October 3, 2007
Size: 2-2.5 cm
Observed scrambling up an embankment from a pool of ditch water to a rough woods road, within a partial clearcut. Not sure of id. Antennae are brown, not black.

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Contributed by Chris Adam on 10 April, 2008 - 12:03pm
Last updated 21 May, 2009 - 7:05am

Moved
Moved from Horn's Earth Boring Beetle.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 21 May, 2009 - 7:05am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Splendid Earth Boring Beetle.
… MJ Paulsen, 29 April, 2009 - 2:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Earth-Boring Dung Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 10 April, 2008 - 8:10pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Osmoderma scabra.
… Chris Adam, 10 April, 2008 - 1:28pm login or register to post comments

No.
This is not even in the Scarabaeidae any more. It looks to be a species of Geotrupes, but certainly one of the "earth-boring scarabs" in the family Geotrupidae.
… Eric R. Eaton, 10 April, 2008 - 12:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks again. I can get it do
Thanks again. I can get it down as far as the Bolboceratinae, based on the two choices of antenna colour. Looks like there are few live pictures of these insects in BG.
… Chris Adam, 10 April, 2008 - 1:30pm login or register to post comments

 
size, not color of antenna is important
this looks most like Geotrupes balyi
… Phillip Harpootlian, 10 April, 2008 - 3:58pm login or register to post comments

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