''Dynastes moroni'' is a large scarab beetle endemic to the

Sierra de los Tuxtlas The Sierra de Los Tuxtlas (Tuxtlas Mountains) are a volcanic belt and mountain range along the southeastern Veracruz Gulf coast in Eastern Mexico. The Los Tuxtlas Biosphere Reserve (Biósfera Los Tuxtlas) includes the coastal and higher elevation ...

region in

Mexico Mexico ( Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guate ...

.Ratcliffe, B. C., R. D. Cave, and E. Cano. 2013. The dynastine scarab beetles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 27: 1-666.

Taxonomy

This beetle species was originally described as a subspecies, ''Dynastes hyllus moroni'', but subsequent genetic analyses clearly indicate that it is unrelated to ''

Dynastes hyllus ''Dynastes hyllus'' is a large scarab beetle species that ranges from Mexico to Guatemala. Its larvae have been found to associate with the logs of ''Persea americana''. Taxonomy There were two subspecies recognized, ''D. hyllus hyllus'' and '' ...

''; ''D. hyllus'' is sister to '' Dynastes grantii'', while ''D. moroni'' is sister to '' Dynastes maya''.Huang JP, Knowles LL (2015) The species versus subspecies conundrum: Quantitative delimitation from integrating multiple data types within a single Bayesian approach in Hercules beetles. Syst Biol 65(4):685–99

References

Dynastinae Beetles described in 2005 {{Dynastinae-stub