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BEETLE! - Osmoderma scabra

BEETLE! - Osmoderma scabra
Carver, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
July 9, 2007
I found the dog and cat sniffing at this earlier this morning. What kind of beetle is this, and how can it get in the house? I've seen these out in the yard recently. I'm assuming one just grabbed on to the dog while she was exploring.

Osmoderma sp.
This beetle look very much like an Osmoderma.
With the ligned elytra, i would put my bet on Osmoderma scabra.
I recently read something saying that those beetles, wich belonged to the Trichinae sub-familly, among the scarabeidae familly, as been moved to the Cetonidae. But with the taxonomy i'm used to, the cetonidae is not an existant familly, the cetoninae being a sub-familly among the scarabeaidae too.
So if i understand well, they moved the cetoninae out of the scarabaeidae familly and gave it full familly status as cetonidae?
So now, there is no more cetoninae sub-familly in the scarabeaidae, the cetoninae being a sub-familly of the cetonidae, wich are part of the scrabaeoidae super-familly.
Is that right?

 
Thanks for the response....
Thanks for the response. I'm not sure what the anwsers to your questions are.

How do beetles this large get into houses?

 
in the house
I do think that the beetle clinging to an animal would be the safest bet to explain it's presence in the house.
No worry for my question, an expert will most probably come and provide myself with an answer :)

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