Melanocanthon nigricornis (Say, 1823)

Freese, Edwin L., Veal, Doug A. & Lago, Paul K., 2020, The Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Iowa: An annotated checklist, Insecta Mundi 2020 (787), pp. 1-83 : 29

Melanocanthon nigricornis (Say, 1823)

King 1914; WIRC; ELFC; DAVC.

Collection dates: May–September.

Collected from deer and dog dung, deer dung baited pitfall, walking on path, and rolling dung ball on path; majority of individuals collected or observed were on sand prairies with eolian soils, a few from “goat prairies” with sandy soils nearby; a few specimens from the Iowa loess hills which is loess soil; no individuals from other habitats. Vestal (1913) associated this species with sand prairie.

County records ( Figure 98 ): Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Fremont, Henry, Linn, Pottawattamie, Woodbury.

Pseudocanthon Bates, 1887

Figures

Figures 98–105. Distribution of Scarabaeoidea in Iowa. 98) Melanocanthon nigricornis (Say, 1823). 99) Pseudocanthon perplexus (LeConte, 1847). 100) Dichelonyx fuscula LeConte, 1856. 101) Dichelonyx kirbyi Brown, 1946. 102) Dichelonyx linearis (Gyllenhal, 1817). 103) Dichelonyx subvittata (LeConte, 1856). 104) Diplotaxis