Aphodius (Megatelus) contractus Klug, 1845

Král, David & Šípek, Petr, 2013, Aphodiinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of the Goa, Maharashtra and Rajasthan (India) with description of Aphodius (Gilletianus) rajawatorum sp. nov., Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2), pp. 633-648 : 643

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5739687

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0CC4ABA4-70DA-42BD-9922-45316034E5BA

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5739707

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E2052558-FFD7-FFA0-FE24-AA990FBCFA1E

treatment provided by

Marcus

scientific name

Aphodius (Megatelus) contractus Klug, 1845
status

 

Aphodius (Megatelus) contractus Klug, 1845

Distribution. Probably a typical Saharo-Sindian zoogeographical element in Indian fauna. So far known from all the Maghreb countries, Chad and Ethiopia, south-eastern Mediterranean ( Cyprus, Rhodes and Turkey) and Italy (Pantelleria Island), the Levantine region, to Afghanistan ( ALFIERI 1976; BALTHASAR 1964; BARAUD 1985, 1992; CHIKATUNOV & PAVLÍČEK 1997; DELLACASA 1986; DELLACASA & DELLACASA 2006a,c; SCHMIDT 1922). First record for the state of Rajasthan, India and the whole Indo-Pakistani subcontinent.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Aphodiidae

Genus

Aphodius

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