Galapagos Species Database
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Neoryctes similis
Escarabajo, Scarab beetles
Medium-sized species (16.0 mm length, 8.7 mm width). Color reddish-brown. Frons completely, coarsely rugopunctate; frontoclypeal ridge distinctly elevated. Clypeus subtriangular. Mandibles large. Antenna 9-segmented. Pronotum convex, without foveae or tubercles, with moderately large punctures. Elytra glabrous, punctures moderate. Hind wings 8.7 mm.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Suborder
Polyphaga
Superfamily
Scarabaeoidea
Family
Scarabaeidae
Section
Oryctini
Genus
Neoryctes
Species
similis
Taxon category: Accepted
Neoryctes species have variable character states (Cook et al. 1995), and so identifications can be problematical.
Origin: Endemic
- Lopez-Garcia, M. M. Gasca-Alvarez, H. J., Cave, R. D., & Amat-Garcia, G. (2016) An annotated checklist of the New World pentodontine scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini). Zootaxa, 4170(3), 491-509.
- Ratcliffe, B. C. (2014) A new genus and species of Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, other new species of Cyclocephalini, Pentodontini, and Phileurini from South America, and a revised key to the genera of New World Pentodontini. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 68(4), 663-680.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Neoryctes similis", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25567. Accessed 5 November 2026.