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Elephant Beetle

Megasoma elephas

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) gabriel_rosario, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica	323
Mexico	238
Panama	133
Provincia Limón	107
Provincia Puntarenas	89
Quintana Roo	63
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	62
Chiapas	47
Provincia Alajuela	42
Provincia Heredia	39

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	Beetles · Coleoptera
Family	Scarabs · Scarabaeidae
Genus	Elephant Beetles · Megasoma

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
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