Posted by nick upton on 21-09-2011 23:55
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Definitely a big scarab, maybe a Golofa sp. female. The males have spectacular horns, but not the females, making species IDs tougher. I photogaraphed male Golofa porteri (a high altitude Andean species) fighting and pairs mating many years ago in Ecuador. http://www.naturepl.com/bin/npl.dll/go?a=disp&pt=1&t=us\sr-loadersearch.html&si=&usp=0&_spb=0&_spe=0&_spw=0&mw=2&_collection=&_type=&se=20&_filterori=&searchtext=golofa