Sacred scarab beetle, Scarabaeus sacer 1, dung beetles, Onthophagus nuchicornis 2, Coprophanaeus lancifer 3, Sulcophanaeus carnifex 4, and earth-boring dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius 5. Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from James Duncan’s Natural History of Beetles, in Sir William Jardine’s Naturalist’s Library, , Lizars, Edinburgh, 1835. James Duncan was a Scottish zoologist and entomologist 1804-1861.

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