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Beyond Dung: Attractiveness of Native and Exotic Fruits to Dung Beetles in the Brazilian Savanna

Austral Ecology, Volume 51, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Dietary breadth enhances animal resilience in environments where resources are unpredictable or declining, enabling species to exploit alternative food sources when primary ones are scarce. In dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae), frugivory is an increasingly recognised foraging strategy, particularly in tropical regions experiencing ...
César Murilo de Albuquerque Correa, Demerson Otair da Costa, David Andrés Vanegas‐Alarcón, Kleyton Rezende Ferreira   +3 more
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Ultraconserved elements support a new tribal‐level classification for Australasian endemic dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

Systematic Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 1, January‐March 2026.
Phylogenomic data obtained through sequencing ultraconserved elements are used to examine tribal classification in the subfamily Scarabaeinae with the aim of stabilizing classification of 32 unplaced Australasian genera. Phylogenies were generated from a 245,546 base pair alignment comprised of 1092 loci that included terminals representing 160 species
Nicole L. Gunter, Natalie A. Saxton, Fernando Lopes, Sergei Tarasov, Mario Cupello, Fernando Z. Vaz‐de‐Mello, Rachel L. Stone, Federica Losacco, Giulio Montanaro, Michele Rossini, Tom A. Weir   +10 more
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How Do Morphological Traits and Abundance Reflect the Effects of Land Use Change in a Seasonal Floodable Savannah? A Dung Beetle Case in the Brazilian Pantanal

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, Volume 173, Issue 12, Page 1268-1277, December 2025.
We investigated the effects of land‐use change on the abundance and morphological traits (body mass, pronotum ratios, protibial size, elytra ratio, and pronotum–abdomen proportion) of two dung beetle species (Dichotomius bos and D. nisus) in the Brazilian Pantanal.
Tais Felix Gonçalves, Renato Portela Salomão, Kleyton Rezende Ferreira, Ademir Kleber Morbeck de Oliveira, César Murilo de Albuquerque Correa   +4 more
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Microallopatric Speciation in Southern African Dung Beetle Genus Macroderes Driven by Miocene Aridification and Ancestral Flight Loss

Journal of Biogeography, Volume 52, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Southern Africa harbours a diverse array of dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), with many species endemic to the region. Despite this diversity, the historical drivers of their evolution remain largely unexplored. This study investigates the evolutionary history of the flightless dung beetle genus Macroderes, testing its monophyly ...
Gimo M. Daniel, Ishtiag H. Abdalla, Clarke H. Scholtz, Catherine L. Sole   +3 more
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An illustrated checklist of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) from the Periyar Tiger Reserve, Kerala, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2015
An illustrated checklist of 36 species of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) from the Periyar Tiger Reserve in the southern Western Ghats is presented.  Records of eight species endemic to the Western Ghats and a rare primitive old world dung beetle
Nithya Sathiandran, Sabu K. Thomas, Albin T. Flemming   +2 more
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Copro-necrophagous beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) diversity in an agroecosystem in Yucatan, Mexico

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2007
Scarabaeinae are sensitive to structural habitat changes caused by disturbance. We compared copronecrophagous beetle (Scarabaeinae) community structure in three differently managed zones within an agroecosystem of the northern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico ...
Enrique Reyes Novelo, Hugo Delfín-González, Miguel Ángel Morón   +2 more
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Diversity of Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in the Ceará Botanical Park, Caucaia - CE, Brazil = Diversidade de Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) no Parque Botânico do Ceará, Caucaia - CE, Brasil

Agro@mbiente On-line, 2013
- The objective of this study was to survey and analyze richness, abundance, equitability and diversity of Scarabaeinae species in two different environments, Carnaúba Riparian Forest and in Tabuleiro Forest in Ceará Botanic Park, Caucaia - CE, Brazil ...
Maria Goretti Araújo Lima, Rodolpho Peixoto de Almeida Silva, Maria Danielle Feitosa de Sousa, Ewerton Marinho Costa   +3 more
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Manejo forestal comunitario en el sur de México: ¿es una práctica sustentable para el mantenimiento de los ensambles de escarabajos?

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2019
Evaluamos los cambios en la diversidad, estructura y composición de especies de escarabajos copronecrófagos (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) en un paisaje bajo manejo forestal comunitario en el sur de México.
Iliana Ruíz-Pérez, Jorge L. León-Cortés, Lucrecia Arellano, Darío A. Navarrete   +3 more
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Invasão de áreas de savana intra-amazônicas por Digitonthophagus gazella (Fabricius, 1787) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Invasion of intra-Amazonian savannas by the dung beetle Digintonthophagus gazella (Fabricius, 1787) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Acta Amazonica, 2008
Neste estudo, foi avaliada a invasão da comunidade de Scarabaeinae detritívoros de uma savana amazônica pela espécie africana Digitonthophagus gazella (Fabricius 1787).
Rodrigo Augusto Matavelli, Julio Neil Cassa Louzada   +1 more
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Escarabajos estercoleros (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) de ranchos ganaderos de Yucatán, México Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from cattle ranches of Yucatán, Mexico

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2012
Este estudio describe la fauna de escarabajos estercoleros (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) en ranchos ganaderos del trópico subhúmedo. De enero a diciembre de 2010 se recolectaron 93 274 escarabajos estercoleros pertenecientes a 17 especies de la subfamilia
Gertrudis Basto-Estrella, Roger Iván Rodríguez-Vivas, Hugo Delfín-González, Enrique Reyes-Novelo   +3 more
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