Various Large Black Beetles ID, UK and Spain (1 Viewer)

[Alexjh1]

I've been recently sorting through my photos of non-bird species and decided to try and discover what species the unidentified ones actually are. There may end up being a couple of threads like this as time goes on, but I though I'd like to get started on a bunch of larger beetles as I'd have thought they would be a bit easier than some of the others?

1 - A dung beetle of some sort - photographed in Northumbria in June of 2009.
2 - Another dung beetle - seen at Italica near Seville in November 2011.
3 - Another dung beetle - seen at El Rocio on the edge of Donana in Nov 2011.
4 - Probably not a dung beetle, but seen at El Rocio again in Nov 2011.

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[ApusApus]

#1 could be Geotrupes spiniger.


Shane

 

[Alexjh1]

Thanks for the help!

Just a slight update, I found a study of Dung Beetles taken at El Rocio, where the latter 2 species were seen, and not far from no. 2, and now it looks like possibly:

2 = Thorectes hispanicus?
3 = Scarabaeus cicatricosus?
4 = I've found several photos of the same beetle - all of which also haven't identified it...

 

[King Edward]

I think 4 is one of the Darkling Beetles, maybe Pimelia sp.

 

[Alexjh1]

That certainly looks probable looking at them, though I'm struggling to find any info on their ranges, which would help. P. bipunctata and p. grossa look like possibilities at least if the ranges match?