# Mount Erongo

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**Mount Erongo** (21º37'S 15º40'E) is a mountain of 2,350 metres northeast of [Swakopmund](/source/Swakopmund) in [Erongo Region](/source/Erongo_Region), [Namibia](/source/Namibia). Like the [Brandberg Mountain](/source/Brandberg_Mountain) it is a [granitic](/source/Granitic) [intrusion](/source/Intrusion). It is the only place on Earth that *[Versicorpus](/source/Versicorpus) erongoensis*, a [dung beetle](/source/Dung_beetle) species, occurs. [1]

## References

1. Christian M. Deschodt, Adrian L.V. Davis & Clarke H. Scholtz (2011). ["New dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) taxa from arid south-western Africa"](https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/2263/19586/1/Deschodt_New%282011%29.pdf). *[Insect Systematics & Evolution](/source/Insect_Systematics_%26_Evolution)*. **42** (3): 277–294. [doi:10.1163/187631211X568173](https://doi.org/10.1163/187631211X568173). [hdl:2263/19586](https://hdl.handle.net/2263/19586)

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