Color Names

Scarabaeus Sacer

Dung beetle's weathered carapace, earthy and rolled.

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Scarabaeus Sacer is a neutral grey.

It can be described as neutral, medium, colorless and dark.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Scarabaeus Sacer

Scarabaeus sacer

Scarabaeus sacer, common name sacred scarab, is the type species of the genus Scarabaeus and the family Scarabaeidae. This dung beetle is native to southern Europe, North Africa, West Asia, and was venerated in ancient Egypt.

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Scarabaeus

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. These beetles feed exclusively on dung, which they accomplish by rolling a piece of dung some distance from where it was deposited, and burying it in order to feed on it underground. They also prepare food for their larvae by excavating an underground chamber, and filling it with balls that have eggs laid in them. The growing larva feeds upon the dung ball, pupates, and eventually emerges as an adult.

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scarabaeus

Noun

  1. Obsolete form of scarab.
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