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Are fungivorous Scarabaeidae less specialist? [PDF]
In a tropical forest patch of Southeastern Brazil, adult Scarabaeidae beetles were used to test the hypothesis that fungivorous guilds have a higher proportion of generalist species than either frugivorous, necrophagous or coprophagous ones.
Silvia A. Falqueto +2 more
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A new species of the genus Trochaloschema Reitter, 1896 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericinae) from Tajikistan [PDF]
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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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]
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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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) 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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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]
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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The relative effects of two components of mountain environmental heterogeneity, altitude (1500, 1700 and 2000 m a.s.l.) and habitat (pastures, coniferous forests, wet meadows, scrub and anthropogenic woods) on the diversity of dung beetles in an Italian ...
Matteo NEGRO +3 more
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Four new species of the genus Anomala Samouelle, 1819 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from South-East Asia and a key to the species with the similar elytral sculpture [PDF]
Four new species of the genus Anomala Samouelle, 1819 from the continental South-East Asia are described. Anomala paramychodes sp. n. from Laos, Myanmar and South China and A. sinifrater sp. n.
A.M. Prokofiev
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