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Scarabs with the throne names of Thutmose III and Hatshepsut, MET. Scarabs have also been found in vast numbers bearing the throne name of the New Kingdom King Thutmose III (1504–1450 BC) Men Kheper Re. Many of these scarabs date from the long and successful reign of this warrior pharaoh or shortly thereafter, but the majority do not.
Many scarabs are scavengers that recycle dung, carrion, or decaying plant material. [6] Others, such as the Japanese beetle , are plant-eaters , wreaking havoc on various crops and vegetation. Some of the well-known beetles from the Scarabaeidae are Japanese beetles, dung beetles , June beetles , rose chafers ( Australian , European , and North ...
The tribe Hopliini is placed as a subfamily in Catalogue of Life, but is listed as a tribe of subfamily Melolonthinae here. The subfamilies Sericinae and Sericoidinae were suggested in Dietz, Ahrens, et al. (2023) and are included in the Catalogue of Life. [1] [2] The subfamily Lichniinae is sometimes considered a tribe, Lichniini. [3]
Scarab seal ring with Hyksos-period anra inscription. Anra scarabs are scarab seals dating to the Second Intermediate Period found in the Levant, Egypt and Nubia. [1] Anra scarabs are identified by an undeciphered and variable sequence of Egyptian hieroglyphs on the base of the scarab which always include the symbols a, n and r. [2]
For example, during the New Kingdom, heart scarabs were large, typically between four and five centimeters long. [2] Then, in the Third Intermediate Period, a new variation of the heart scarab emerged. This new scarab was much smaller, at about two to four centimeters long. [2] Due to their smaller size, these heart scarabs were not engraved.
The genus Scarabaeus consists of a number of Afro-Eurasian dung beetle species, including the "sacred scarab beetle", Scarabaeus sacer and is the namesake of the tribe Scarabaeini, the family Scarabaeidae, the superfamily Scarabaeoidea and the infraorder Scarabaeiformia.
Scarabaeus sacer was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae, the starting point of zoological nomenclature.It is considered the type species of the genus Scarabaeus, despite some controversy surrounding Latreille's 1810 type designation, [2] which was resolved by a ruling of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature in 2014, to accept Hope's 1837 ...
The so-called marriage scarabs actually refer not to the marriage itself, and neither do they mention a marriage date. They record the name of Amenhotep's chief queen Tiye (following that of her husband), along with the names of her parents, as if to explicitly state her non-royal birth: the name of her father is Yuya, the name of her mother is Thuya; she is married to the great king whose ...