Unicorn beetle

Unicorn beetle

Taxobox
name = Unicorn beetle


image_width = 250px
image_caption = female
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Coleoptera
familia = Scarabaeidae
subfamilia = Dynastinae
genus = "Dynastes"
species = "D. tityus"
binomial = "Dynastes tityus"
binomial_authority = Linnaeus, 1766
The unicorn beetle, "Dynastes tityus", is a species of rhinoceros beetle. This beetle is distinguished by horns on its head and thorax. The name "unicorn beetle" has also been applied to the Hercules beetle, which is in the same genus.

It is one of the two species of rhinoceros beetles found in the south of the United States.

External links

*cite web |url=http://entweb.clemson.edu/museum/beetles/local/btle34.htm |title="Dynastes tityus" |author=Wesley H. Fisher & Jason Spaar |year=2000 |publisher=Clemson University |Accessdate=2007-08-20
*cite web |url=http://wildflowers.jdcc.edu/Unicorn_Beetle.html |title=Unicorn beetle |author=Darryl Searcy |date=2004-06-25 |publisher=Jefferson David Community College


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