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Diversity of Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in an urban fragment of Cerrado in Central Brazil

European Journal of Entomology, 2020
The diversity of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) is affected by urbanization, habitat fragmentation and disappearance of native mammals, which result in changes in the quality and availability of food, and resources for nesting.
Marina R. FRIZZAS, João L.F.L. BATISTA, Marcus V.C. ROCHA, Charles M. OLIVEIRA   +3 more
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Mitochondrial phylogenomics reveals deep relationships of scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)

PLoS ONE, 2022
In this study, we newly sequenced the complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of two phytophagous scarab beetles, and investigated the deep level relationships within Scarabaeidae combined with other published beetle mitogenome sequences.
Shibao Guo, Xingyu Lin, Nan Song
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Dung beetle vicariant speciation in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, with a description of a new species of Phanaeus (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae, Scarabaeidae)

ZooKeys, 2018
An analysis of vicariant speciation of Geotrupes and Phanaeus (Coleoptera, Geotrupidae, Scarabaeidae) from the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico is undertaken. The new species of dung beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Oaxaca, Mexico, Phanaeus dionysius sp.
Bert Kohlmann, Alfonsina Arriaga-Jiménez, Matthias Rös   +2 more
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First record and DNA barcode of a scarab beetle, Adoretus kanarensis Arrow, 1917 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae), from Maharashtra, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2023
Adoretus kanarensis Arrow, 1917, composed within the subfamily Rutelinae of family Scarabaeidae, was described from India about 107 years ago. These conspicuous, attractive, and tiny leaf chafers are recorded as predators of several agricultural crops ...
Pranil Jagdale, S. Magdum, A. Kalawate, Swapnil Kajale, Y. Shouche   +4 more
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The Mitochondrial Genomes of 18 New Pleurosticti (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Exhibit a Novel trnQ-NCR-trnI-trnM Gene Rearrangement and Clarify Phylogenetic Relationships of Subfamilies within Scarabaeidae

Insects, 2021
Simple Summary The family Scarabaeidae is one of the largest families in the insect order Coleoptera and is comprised of two quasi-systematics groups, Pleurosticti and Laparosticti.
Sam Pedro Galilee Ayivi, Yao Tong, K. Storey, Danna Yu, Jiayong Zhang   +4 more
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A new species of the genus Trochaloschema Reitter, 1896 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae) from Tajikistan [PDF]

Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2020
Trochaloschema dubium sp. n. is described from the forest belt of Vakhsh Ridge (Tajikistan) from the altitude 1900 m. A new species differs from other similar taxa mainly in the structure of male genitalia and sculpture of pronotum.
G.V. Nikolajev, O.V. Pak
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Pholeophile Onthophagus species in fauna of Serbia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Onthophagini) [PDF]

Zaštita prirode, 2017
This paper presents an overview of pholeobiont, pholeophile and pholeoxene representatives of the genus Onthophagus in Serbia related to burrows of small mammals, primarily those of rodents.
Pavićević Dragan, Mrčarica Lazar, Bogosavljević Jelena   +2 more
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Factors Associated with the Occurrence, Potential Distribution and Conservation of Anoxia orientalis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) at Different Spatial Scales

Diversity, 2022
Anoxia (Protanoxia) orientalis is a beetle of the family Melolonthidae for which Italy represents the western limit of its distribution. The ecology of this species is little known from the quantitative point of view.
Calogero Muscarella, Luca Luiselli, Massimiliano Di Vittorio, Ignazio Sparacio, Daniele Dendi   +4 more
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Diversity and Composition of the Gut Microbiota in the Developmental Stages of the Dung Beetle Copris incertus Say (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
Dung beetles are holometabolous insects that feed on herbivorous mammal dung and provide services to the ecosystem including nutrient cycling and soil fertilization.
Pablo Suárez-Moo, M. Cruz-Rosales, E. Ibarra-Laclette, D. Desgarennes, C. Huerta, A. Lamelas   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Soil Application of Metarhizium anisopliae JEF-314 Granules to Control, Flower Chafer Beetle, Protaetia brevitarsis seulensis

Mycobiology, 2020
Root-feeding Scarabaeidae, particularly white grubs are considered among the most harmful coleopteran insect pests in turfgrass. In this work, sixteen entomopathogenic fungal species were assayed against flower chafer beetle, Protaetia brevitarsis ...
Sihyeon Kim, Jong Cheol Kim, Se Jin Lee, Mi Rong Lee, So Eun Park, Dongwei Li, Sehyeon Baek, Tae Young Shin, Laila Gasmi, Jae Su Kim   +9 more
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