''Dynastes moroni'' is a large

scarab beetle The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change in recent years. Several sub ...

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 The western Hercules beetle (''Dynastes grantii'', often misspelled as "''granti''") is a species of rhinoceros beetle that lives in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and parts of northern Mexico. This species is known for its grayish-white elytra, larg ...

'', while ''D. moroni'' is sister to ''

Dynastes maya ''Dynastes'' is a genus of large beetles belonging to the family Scarabaeidae. They occur in the Nearctic realm and in the Neotropical realm, from the United States to Brazil;Dynastinae Beetles described in 2005 {{Dynastinae-stub