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I found this beetle in Buena Vista, Colon, Panama. I work in a quarry in the middle of some pretty dense jungle. The bugs here are enormous! For example, this fella is 11 cm long. Unfortunately, we found him dead. I have since found many others alive. By the way, you don’t want to get those claws grabbing on to your skin or clothes. It took three people to unhook him to get him off. What is he?
Lisa
Hi Lisa,
This scarab beetle is in the subfamily Dynastinae, the Rhinoceros Beetles. We are sure someone will write in with an exact species for you. Sure enough, Eric Eaton has this to add: ” The dynasine is in the genus Megasoma, forget which species, maybe elaphas. Should come up easily with an image search on Google.”
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