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06-05-2011, 06:31 PM
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| | | Mystery Brown Beetle
Hi
I am new so please be gentle if i do anything wrong.
I have checked my book and also had a scan through the forums but I cannot ID this beetle. Any help would be great! 
It flew in my living room window this afternoon, was about 8-10mm long and kept landing on its back and was generally pretty bad at flying. Eventually it went off out the window with help from a abit of paper. It was pretty fast moving hence the pics not being that great.
About the closest my book of insects comes to this is some sort of dung beetle but I am not too sure.  |
06-05-2011, 07:46 PM
| | Active Member | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Warwickshire
Posts: 89
| | | Re: Mystery Brown Beetle
Aphodius sp?
Not great with beetles!
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06-05-2011, 09:19 PM
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Posts: 11,628
| | | Re: Mystery Brown Beetle
Could be a may bug cockchafer |
06-05-2011, 10:10 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London
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| | | Re: Mystery Brown Beetle
Evening Daisy, and welcome to WAB! 
It could be an Onthophagus species (Scarabaeidae).
Take care, Jason |
06-05-2011, 10:29 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: London
Posts: 1,011
| | | Re: Mystery Brown Beetle
definitely Onphophagus, perhaps O. coenobita |
07-05-2011, 03:55 AM
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| | | Re: Mystery Brown Beetle
Hi,
Jason made the first steps and passed the baton on Tristanba who reached the goal.
Regards
Klaas
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07-05-2011, 03:27 PM
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| | | Re: Mystery Brown Beetle
Thats very helpful - thanks very much people! | | |
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