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Intrasexual fighting and mounting by females of the horned beetle Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) [PDF]

open access: goldEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2010
Although females of the horned beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus septentrionalis, have only small horns they often fight over access to feeding sites by head-butting each other. In addition, they sometimes show intrasexual mounting.
Yutaka IGUCHI
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Relaciones filogenéticas y distribución de los Rhizotrogini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Melolonthinae) en el Mediterráneo occidental

open access: diamondGraellsia, 2003
En este trabajo se revisan los géneros de Rhizotrogini del Mediterraneo Occidental. Dos clases de caracteres son estudiados; los correspondientes a la morfología externa de los adultos y a las genitalias femenina y masculina.
Mª. M. Coca-Abia
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A new species of the genus Trochaloschema Reitter, 1896 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae) from Tajikistan [PDF]

open access: yesКавказский 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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Factors Associated with the Occurrence, Potential Distribution and Conservation of Anoxia orientalis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) at Different Spatial Scales

open access: yesDiversity, 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   +4 more
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Pholeophile Onthophagus species in fauna of Serbia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Onthophagini) [PDF]

open access: yesZaštita 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   +2 more
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Status of the new genera in Gistel’s “Die Insecten-Doubletten aus der Sammlung des Herrn Grafen Rudolph von Jenison Walworth” issued in 1834

open access: yesZooKeys, 2017
All new genus-group names included in Gistel’s list of Coleoptera from the collection of Count Rudolph von Jenison Walwort, published in 1834, are recorded.
Yves Bousquet, Patrice Bouchard
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Scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) as economically important pests and the possibility of using entomopathogenic fungi for their control

open access: yesActa Agriculturae Slovenica, 2022
Scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) are a cosmopolitan group of beetles found on all continents except Antarctica. Because of their size, vibrant colors, and above all their role in the ecosystem, they are one of the most recognizable and studied ...
Eva PRAPROTNIK   +2 more
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A revision of the Onthophagus pexatus species-group, with description of a new brachypterous species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

open access: yesRecords of the Australian Museum, 2022
The Onthophagus pexatus species-group is revised, with the known species—O. longipes Paulian, 1937; O. nammuldi Matthews, 1972; O. pexatus Harold, 1869; O. squalidus Lea, 1923—redescribed and a new species: O. bulga sp. nov., described.
Chris A. M. Reid, Aidan Runagall-McNaull
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A new species of Anisoplia Schönherr, 1817 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from Rostov Region, Russia [PDF]

open access: yesКавказский энтомологический бюллетень
The nominotypical subgenus of the genus Anisoplia Schönherr, 1817 contains over 50 species, nine of which are known in the European Russia: A. agricola Poda von Neuhaus, 1761, A. brenskei Reitter, 1889, A.
I.V. Shokhin
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Diversity of Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in an urban fragment of Cerrado in Central Brazil

open access: yesEuropean 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   +3 more
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