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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Earth-Boring Scarab Beetles (Geotrupidae) » Geotrupinae » Geotrupes » subgenus Geohowdenius (Geotrupes subgenus Geohowdenius) » Eger's Earth Boring Beetle (Geotrupes egeriei)
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Beetle - Geotrupes egeriei
Copyright © 2020 Dave Patton

Beetle - Geotrupes egeriei
Sandy Hollow WMA, about 3 miles NW of Wilmer, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, USA
October 25, 2020
Size: about 15mm
Possibly Euetheola rugiceps. Found flying low through grass on pipeline right of way. The yellow exposed in flight produced a good bumble bee mimic. Landed and burrowed into the sandy soil.

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Contributed by Dave Patton on 28 October, 2020 - 7:31am
Last updated 11 February, 2021 - 9:55am

Moved
Moved from Geotrupes.
… Ryan Selking, 11 February, 2021 - 9:55am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Scarab Beetles.
… Blaine Mathison, 28 October, 2020 - 8:35am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for looking. I added t
Thanks for looking. I added two more photos in case they help.
… Dave Patton, 28 October, 2020 - 8:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Geotrupes egeriei
Hard to say for sure. Geotrupes blackburnii is the one that people often see very late in the season but that species is typically more bronzish and also has very fine sparse punctures on the pronotum. G. splendidus and G. egerei both tend to be more rotund like this beetle in these photos. You have to look at just the right angle to see it, but I think I can see hints of the bright blue punctures (best seen on the elytra and basal margin of the pronotum) that are distinctive for G. egeriei.
… Frank Guarnieri, 29 October, 2020 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

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