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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles (Polyphaga) » Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles (Scarabaeoidea) » Earth-Boring Scarab Beetles (Geotrupidae) » Bolboceratinae » Bolbocerosoma
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Bolbocerosoma sp. - Bolbocerosoma
Copyright © 2016 Dan Sundberg

Bolbocerosoma sp. - Bolbocerosoma
vic. McCoy, Atascosa County, Texas, USA
June 5, 2016
Size: 7mm
Yall have fun with this....
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Contributed by Dan Sundberg on 17 June, 2016 - 7:56am
Last updated 30 June, 2016 - 10:05am

apparently, this is the first ever all black spmn known...
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Moved from Frass(!)...
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… Mike Quinn, 30 June, 2016 - 10:05am login or register to post comments

 
assuming the genus-level ID is correct
key features are not visible in this one image
… Blaine Mathison, 30 June, 2016 - 10:11am login or register to post comments

 
yes and that's a *very* safe assumption...
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Dan is one of the foremost experts on TX scarabs.

see and see
.
… Mike Quinn, 1 July, 2016 - 8:08am login or register to post comments

Frassed
Moved from Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 29 June, 2016 - 11:24am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Aaron Hunt, 20 June, 2016 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

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