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Canthon femoralis
Very small dung beetle scarab (about 4 mm) with a dark metallic green color and orange antennae. The legs are banded with orange and black. I found only 5 specimens throughout the day, all sitting individually on the top of leaves or on fence posts.
Forest of the Zoomat Park above Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas at about 350 meters elevation.
All were clean, no signs of dung. Not black as in the picture of C. femoralis (http://eol.org/pages/1160453/overview), but dark metallic green. Different subspecies maybe?
Spotted on Oct 12, 2012
Submitted on Oct 20, 2012
2 Comments
Muchas gracias, BenignoGómez por su ayuda con la identificación. Creo que si es C. femoralis, pero en las pocas fotos que hay, es negro. Los mios son verdes metálicos. ¿Puede ser un subespecie? No hay otros con piernas de este tipo.
Hola, esta especie de escarabajo rodador me parece que es Canthon femoralis Chevrolat, 1834