Grant's Hercules Beetle

Dynastes grantii

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae

The western Hercules beetle (Dynastes grantii, often misspelled as "granti") is a species of rhinoceros beetle that lives in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah in the United States and in parts of northern Mexico. This species is known for its grayish-white elytra, large size, and characteristic horn of the adult males. Description Adult body sizes of both sexes vary from 3.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Luis Gonzalo Mata Hernandez, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionDynastes grantii, Wikipedia contributors

Grant's Hercules Beetle

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