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Does one size suit all? Dung pad size and ball production by Scarabaeus sacer (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2016
Large, ball rolling dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) are competitively dominant and can strongly influence community succession in dung pads.
Gregory T. SULLIVAN   +4 more
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Two new species and one new record for the genus Copris (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Vietnam with a key to Vietnamese species

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2018
Two new species of Copris Geoffroy, 1762 are described and illustrated: Copris (subgenus incertae sedis) caobangensis sp. n. from Caobang Province (northern Vietnam) and Copris (Copris) sonensis sp. n. from Thanhhoa Province (central Vietnam).
BUI Van Bac   +2 more
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Cladistic analysis of Sericania (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Sericini) - implications for the evolution of the xerophilous fauna of the Himalaya

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2007
A cladistic analysis of the species of Sericania Motschulsky, 1860, was executed using fifty-six morphological characters of adults. The monophyly of the genus is supported by the phylogenetic trees generated.
Dirk AHRENS
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A preliminary study on the dung beetles of the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India

open access: yesJournal of Threatened Taxa, 2018
The present study documented 50 species represented by 25 genera, 17 tribes, seven subfamilies belonging to Hybosoridae, Geotrupidae and Scarabaeidae of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea from the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra.
Aparna Sureshchandra Kalawate
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity of arthropods associated with sheep, cow, goat, and camel manure in the southeast of Algeria

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Biologia
Within the region of southeast Algeria, the Berlese method was utilized to conduct an inventory of the arthropods that were associated with four different types of manure: cow, sheep, goat, and camel.
Mohammed Ben Yahia BENCHENNA   +4 more
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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)

open access: yesZooKeys, 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   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

NEW DEPARTMENTAL RECORDS OF DIGITONTHOPHAGUS GAZELLA (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE) IN COLOMBIA

open access: yesActa Biológica Colombiana, 2012
The introduced dung beetle Digitonthophagus gazella was reported for the Caribbean Region of Colombia in the 90’s. During a survey carried out along the Magdalena River new records of the presence of this species were found in the departments of Boyacá ...
Jorge Ari Noriega   +3 more
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An update of the Romanian fauna of Coleoptera: new records and notes on rare and little known species

open access: yesTravaux de l'Institut de Speologie Emile Racovitza, 2017
First records of four species of Coleoptera (Fam. Leiodidae: Hydnobius latifrons (Curtis, 1840); Scarabaeidae: Limarus zenkeri (Germar, 1813); Zopheridae: Pycnomerus sulcicollis (Germar, 1824); Tenebrionidae: Helops caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) for the ...
EUGEN NITZU
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Mitochondrial phylogenomics reveals deep relationships of scarab beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)

open access: yesPLoS 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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