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Photo #44823: Heliocopris gigas

Male

Heliocopris gigas

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Base gallery. Upperside. Pinned specimen.

Photo, and identified by: Vasiliy Feoktistov. Image without retouching at the website

Date and time, location shooting/catching: 1996-00-00 00:00:00, North Africa, Republic of the Sudan, Nile Valley. leg. Belova G.A.

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05.10.2015 14:27, Vasiliy Feoktistov

That is the Copper-Isis, who sang Jean Henri Fabre in his "Entomological memories":
"I know it only by the images, but these images are so striking that I in my old age takes dreamed as a young man, how would you like to wander the banks of the Nile, in Nubia, to under piles of camel dung to learn the life of the insect,is the personification of Isis - the divine power of nature, which fertilizes Osiris - the sun. "

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