Aphodius scrofa (Fabricius, 1787)

Frolov, Andrey & Akhmetova, Lilia, 2013, A contribution to the study of the Lower Volga center of scarab beetle diversity in Russia: checklist of the tribe Aphodiini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) of Dosang environs, Biodiversity Data Journal 1, pp. 979-979 : 979

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e979

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scientific name

Aphodius scrofa (Fabricius, 1787)
status

 

scrofa Trichonotulus Aphodius Scarabaeidae Coleoptera Insecta Arthropoda Animalia

Aphodius scrofa (Fabricius, 1787)

Materials

Type status: Other material

Occurrence: recordedBy: A. V. Frolov, L. A. Akhmetova; individualCount: 4; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: Dosang environs, left bank of Akhtuba River, floodplain ; decimalLatitude: 46.91; decimalLongitude: 47.91; Event: samplingProtocol: horse dung washing; eventDate: 2007-04-10; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

Cattle and wild herbivore dung.

Distribution

Transpalearctic species occurring mostly in steppe zone.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Aphodius