''Dynastes moroni'' is a large

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endemic to the

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region in

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.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''; ''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