| Megasoma | |
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| Megasoma elephas, the elephant beetle | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Dynastinae |
| Tribe: | Dynastini |
| Genus: | Megasoma Kirby, 1825 |
| Type species | |
| Megasoma actaeon (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Megasoma is a genus of rhinoceros beetles. Commonly known as the elephant beetles, Megasoma species are found from the southern half of North America to most of South America.[1]
- ^ M. Prandi, P. Grossi, F. Vaz-de-Mello (2020) Revision of the Megasoma (Megasoma) gyas (Jablonsky in Herbst, 1785) species group (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Dynastinae). ZooKeys 999:109-145. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.999.53130