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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Dung Beetles (Scarabaeinae) » Deltochilini » Melanocanthon » Melanocanthon nigricornis
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Dung beetle with dung - Melanocanthon nigricornis
Copyright © 2007 Charles Schurch Lewallen

Dung beetle with dung - Melanocanthon nigricornis
Deep Fork Wildlife Refuge, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, USA
April 21, 2007
I believe that this is Melanocanthon nigricornis, the same as I posted before. If this can be confirmed I will move it to the correct page.
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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 21 April, 2007 - 3:55pm
Last updated 23 April, 2007 - 7:47am

sure
moved
… Phillip Harpootlian, 23 April, 2007 - 7:48am login or register to post comments

 
Dung Beetle
Thanks.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 23 April, 2007 - 8:10am login or register to post comments

 
a similar shot
While not as nice as yours, the Insects of Cedar Creek website also has a shot (with old nomenclature, Canthon) rolling similar 'food' - presumably deer, same that I see for M. bispinatus.
… Phillip Harpootlian, 23 April, 2007 - 8:36am login or register to post comments

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