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Scarab beetle

Family Scarabaeidae

Description:

I found this wonderful beetle on the bark of a tree (photo #3), surrounded by ants. I thought that the ants were attacking the beetle, but turns out this was feeding on the sap that flowed from the tree, and the ants were trying to push it away, for getting some sap too. I took the beetle from the tree (photo #4) and laid it on a leaf (photos #1and #2). Photo #5 is a close-up of he beetle's head.

6 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

WELCOME!

Sergio Monteiro
Sergio Monteiro 10 years ago

THANK YOU bayucca AND Mark! ;-)

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

You are RIGHT, Mark. I think Sergio's is a female.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Both of those have a pair of 'horns' on the shape of the 'face' but this one is flat? Setae patterns aren't exactly same? This one is exposing a fair bit of abdomen beyond the wing cases? (Your CapsLock will break :-)

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae, Incaini, Inca bomplandi.
Please, verify!! It could be that this site mixed Inca with Pulverulentus??
http://www.goliathus.cz/en/inca-pulverul...
I cannot really imagine, that all the other sites are WRONG, but you never know: If the first is WRONG all others were also WRONG if the WRONG ones believe the WRONG ones as well and took the WRONG ID, believing the first is RIGHT, but indeed is WRONG and nobody cares about a WRONG ID and take the WRONG one as the RIGHT one again and again...
http://www.freewebs.com/escarabjos/ceton...
http://butterfly-amazon.com/images/untit...
http://butterfly-amazon.com/product_info...
http://www.thebugmaniac.com/index.cfm/pa...
http://www.lescoleopteres.com/coleoptera...
http://www.lescoleopteres.com/inca-bompl...
http://www.chaminade-entomologie.com/fic...
http://www.goliathus.cz/en/inca-pulverul...
http://www.goliathus.cz/en/inca-pulverul...
Am I WRONG or RIGHT ;-)...

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Melolonthinae?

Sergio Monteiro
Spotted by
Sergio Monteiro

Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Spotted on Feb 5, 2014
Submitted on Feb 6, 2014

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