Unicorn beetle

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iUnicorn Beetle

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Subfamily: Dynastinae
Genus: Dynastes
Species: D. tityus
Binomial name
Dynastes tityus
Linnaeus, 1766
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The unicorn beetle (Dynastes tityus) is a type 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 in the south of the United States.

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