There are more than 30,000 species of scarab beetles, making the group one of the largest and most diverse families of insects. Scarab beetles are part of the order Coleoptera, which remarkably contains over 400,000 species of beetles and is the largest order in the entire animal kingdom. Scarab beetles are an ecologically important group of animals and are particularly associated with flowering plants.
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