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Strategus splendens? - Dynastes tityus
Copyright © 2014 Bob Kipfer

Strategus splendens? - Dynastes tityus
12 miles SSE of Ozark Missouri, Christian County, Missouri, USA
September 5, 2014
Size: 42 mm long

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Strategus splendens? - Dynastes tityus Strategus splendens? - Dynastes tityus Strategus splendens? - Dynastes tityus
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Contributed by Bob Kipfer on 5 September, 2014 - 9:09pm
Last updated 29 October, 2014 - 2:16pm

Moved
Moved from Beetles.
… Alan Jeon, 29 October, 2014 - 2:16pm login or register to post comments

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… john and jane balaban, 30 September, 2014 - 5:30pm login or register to post comments

Doesn't look like a Strategus
The tarsi are large and well developed. Looks to have a textured pronotum (Strategus are usually shiny across much of the pronotum).

I suspect this is a female Unicorn Beetle, Dyanstes tityus (i.e. discolored =wet/oily or possibly a dark form, which is uncommon, but of the many I have collected and reared, I have seen several)
… Bill Reynolds, 6 September, 2014 - 7:44am login or register to post comments

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