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Sandhills Earth-boring Scarab Beetle
Mycotrupes retusus
Mycotrupes retusus is a species belonging to the family Geotrupidae ("earth-boring scarab beetles"), in the order Coleoptera ("beetles"). The species is generally known as the "sandhills earth boring scarab beetle". It is found in North America.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 568070.