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Tribe Dynastini

Eastern Hercules Beetle - Dynastes tityus - male

Eastern Hercules Beetle - Dynastes tityus - female

Camo Beetle - What is it's true name, family, species? - Dynastes tityus

Rhinoceros Beetle - Megasoma punctulatum - female

Male and female, Grant's Hercules Beetle - Dynastes grantii - male - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga (Water, Rove, Scarab, Long-horned, Leaf and Snout Beetles)

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Scarab, Stag and Bess Beetles)

Family Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)

Subfamily Dynastinae (Rhinoceros Beetles)

Tribe Dynastini

Numbers

Two genera; Dynastes [2 species] and Megasoma [3 species]

Contributed by Cotinis on 21 January, 2006 - 6:59am
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian
Last updated 2 September, 2008 - 12:10pm

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