Aphodius (Acanthobodilus) immundus Creutzer, 1799

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-

Aphodius (Acanthobodilus) immundus Creutzer, 1799

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 13; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: D2F6AB0C-F24A-5B42-8BC2-469D4D294DA2; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius immundus ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera ; family: Scarabaeidae ; genus: Aphodius ; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Orenburg; locality: Pervomaiskij Distr., 628 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

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 109507E1-EDCF-55D0-A631-7758CEE97CFB; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius luridus ; 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

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 5; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 7E92C89E-A963-556C-A07A-4434163F9887; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius luridus ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera ; family: Scarabaeidae ; genus: Aphodius ; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Samara; locality: Bol’shechernigovskij distr., 3.9 km SSW of Polyanskij vill., gully bottom, forb-grass steppe. ; decimalLatitude: 51.85; decimalLongitude: 50.89; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak , in toilet burrow; eventDate: 2023-04 - 28; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 3; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3EA2417B-155C-52E1-A421-FE2E53B85FAC; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius luridus ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera ; family: Scarabaeidae ; genus: Aphodius ; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Samara; locality: Bol’shechernigovskij distr., 2.44 km SSW of Polyanskij vill., gully Barsuchikha, forb-fescue-feather grass steppe ; decimalLatitude: 51.9; decimalLongitude: 50.93; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak , in toilet burrow; eventDate: 2023-05 - 19; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Distribution

The species occurs throughout Europe, in Morocco, Egypt, the Caucasus, the Transcaucasus, Asia Minor, Syria, Kazakhstan, middle and Central Asia. In Russia, it occurs from the western borders up to southern Yakutia.

Biology

The species is common in the major part of its range and prefers open biotopes. The beetles feed on horse, cow and donkey dung; they are attracted to light and occur from April to September.