Green Devil Beetle
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Courtesy of Richard Bartz |
A male green devil scarab beetle, Oxysternon conspicillatum. The family Scarabaeidae, as presently defined, consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide, and species in this large family are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. However, the classification of this family is fairly unstable, with numerous competing theories, and new proposals appearing quite often.