Aphodius (Melinopterus) punctatosulcatus Sturm, 1805

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.13800823
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scientific name	Aphodius (Melinopterus) punctatosulcatus Sturm, 1805
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Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 2; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: F12B1842-95C6-5ADB-8E79-1816F73D9333; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius punctatosulcatus ; 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 in Europe, except for the extreme north, North Africa ( Morocco, Tunisia), the Trancaucasus, west Asia, Kazakhstan and Middle Asia. In Russia, it is common in the European part, reaching the Transbaikal Region to the east.

Ecology

The species occurs in the dung of domestic animals and in marmot holes.