Scarab beetle
- Description
- This specimen was given to us by the Natural History Museum in London in 1942. This species of scarab beetle feeds on mammal dung and dead invertebrates.
- Accession Loan No.
- 13/1942/43
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Common Name
- scarab beetle
- Simple Name
- insect: beetle
- Full Name
- SCARABAEIDAE: Coprophanaeus bellicosus (Olivier, 1789):
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- British Museum Natural History (from the collection of)
- Collection Area Region
- South America
- Collection Continent
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Phylum
- ARTHROPODA
- Family
- SCARABAEIDAE
- Genus
- Coprophanaeus
- Species
- bellicosus
