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I cannot find a good reference on bettles. This scarab looking beetle had a copper colored covering over his thorax much like a triceratops. But the horn curved backwards over its head. The elytra were emerald green. It was found in Immokalee Florida. Sorry I thought it was near dead and didn’t get any better pictures before it flew off. We have peach and citrus groves here.
Ginger M. Allen
Senior Biological Scientist
Florida Master Naturalist Program Coordinator
University of Florida/IFAS
Hi Ginger,
We are honored that you have turned to us for an identification. Your beetle is a Dung Beetle, Phanaeus vindex. Dung Beetles are considered Scarabs. The male and female often work as a team to gather dung, roll it into a ball and bury it with an egg. Your specimen is a male as evidenced by his long curving horn.
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