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Earth-boring Dung Beetle - Odonteus liebecki - male
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Earth-boring Dung Beetle - Odonteus liebecki - Male
55 and Sedwick, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
May 31, 2005
Size: 8mm
Frontal view of head, pronotum. Details of the clypeus (upper mouthpart), visible here, are helpful in keying species in this genus. (1)

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Contributed by Cotinis on 3 June, 2005 - 3:19pm
Last updated 11 September, 2006 - 1:02pm

are you sure...
of the species ID here? The clypeus appears to have a central carina, which liebecki shouldnt have?!?
… Blaine Mathison, 14 December, 2009 - 8:34pm

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