Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) leucostigma Steven, 1811

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.13800847

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) leucostigma Steven, 1811
status

 

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Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 9; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: CBAEC39F-94A2-5569-9D93-8812145FCB69; Taxon: scientificName: Onthophagus leucostigma ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera ; family: Scarabaeidae ; genus: Onthophagus ; 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: A. V. Frolov; 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

Southern Ukraine, southern European Russia up to Volga Basin in the east, north-western Kazakhstan.

Biology

A nidicolous species inhabiting burrows of steppe rodents. It was also registered feeding on sheep and cattle dung.

ZIN

Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, Zoological Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Onthophagus