Aphodius (Calamosternus) granarius (Linnaeus, 1767)

Akhmetova, Lilia A., Kurochkin, Andrei S. & Frolov, Andrey V., 2024, Dung-beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae, Scarabaeinae) feeding on faeces of steppe marmots Marmota bobak (Rodentia, Sciuridae) in Middle Volga territory, Biodiversity Data Journal 12, pp. e 125090-e 125090 : e125090-

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/BDJ.12.e125090
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13800810
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scientific name	Aphodius (Calamosternus) granarius (Linnaeus, 1767)
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Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 8; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 5CA4435F-ECE7-5347-8AAB-A37B9453D49D; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius granarius ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera ; family: Scarabaeidae ; genus: Aphodius ; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Orenburg; locality: Pervomaiskij Distr., 6.28 km SSW of Polyanskij vill., urochishche Pal’govo, gully bottom, forb-fescue steppe. ; decimalLatitude: 51.83; decimalLongitude: 50.87; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak , near burrow entrance; eventDate: 2023-05 - 18; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Distribution

The species is distributed throughout Europe (except for the extreme north), west Asia, Kazakhstan and Middle Asia; imported to North America. In Russia, it occurs from the western border up to Transbaikal Region.

Biology

The species is common in all the parts of its range. It occurs in open biotopes in the dung of different animals, in carrion and in marmot holes.