Aphodius melanostictus W. Schmidt, 1840

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

melanostictus Chilothorax Aphodius Scarabaeidae Coleoptera Insecta Arthropoda Animalia

Aphodius melanostictus W. Schmidt, 1840

Materials

Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: V. Kozlov; individualCount: 25; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: 7 km NNE of Dosang ; decimalLatitude: 46.93; decimalLongitude: 48.00; Event: samplingProtocol: horse dung washing; eventDate: 2005-11-01; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: A. V. Frolov, L. A. Akhmetova; individualCount: 4; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: Dosang environs, fixed sands ; decimalLatitude: 46.92; decimalLongitude: 47.92; Event: samplingProtocol: horse dung washing; eventDate: 2006-10-09; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: A. V. Frolov, L. A. Akhmetova; individualCount: 15; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: Dosang environs, fixed sands ; decimalLatitude: 46.92; decimalLongitude: 47.92; Event: samplingProtocol: horse dung washing; eventDate: 2007-04-17; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

Cattle dung.

Distribution

Western Palearctic region up to South Siberia in the north-east.