Aphodius (Melinopterus) prodromus (Brahm, 1790)
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https://doi.org/ 10.3897/BDJ.12.e125090 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13800821 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/80101A1E-7D7A-5197-84DE-5993D7851078 |
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Aphodius (Melinopterus) prodromus (Brahm, 1790) |
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Aphodius (Melinopterus) prodromus (Brahm, 1790) View in CoL
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 5744E2FA-28D7-50D4-957E-69DFEEBDA6B4; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius prodromus ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera ; family: Scarabaeidae ; genus: Aphodius ; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Orenburg; locality: Pervomaiskij Distr., 7.32 km SSW of Koshkin vill., urochishche Pal’govo, gully bottom, forb-wormwood-grass steppe. ; decimalLatitude: 51.82; decimalLongitude: 50.86; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak , near burrow entrance; eventDate: 2023-05 - 19; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera
Distribution
The species occurs throughout Europe, in North Africa ( Morocco, Algeria), the Caucasus, the Transcaucasus, Asia Minor, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Kazakhstan, middle Asia and Mongolia; it was imported to USA and Canada. In Russia, it is distributed from the western border to Yakutia.
Biology
A coprophagous species feeding on dung of cows, horses and wild ungulates. In Russia, this species is common; in southern regions, it occurs from March to December.
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, Zoological Museum |
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