Sisyphus schaefferi (Linnaeus, 1758)

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-

Sisyphus schaefferi (Linnaeus, 1758)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 99EC5DC7-7880-5804-BE51-C76736CA8597; Taxon: scientificName: Sisyphus schaefferi ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera ; family: Scarabaeidae ; genus: Sisyphus ; 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: A. V. Frolov; 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

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 5; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 47D23F9B-CBB8-5FAA-91DC-23277890E809; Taxon: scientificName: Sisyphus schaefferi ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera ; family: Scarabaeidae ; genus: Sisyphus ; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Samara; locality: Bol’shechernigovskij distr., 3.53 km SSW of Polyanskij vill., gully bottom, forb-grass steppe. ; decimalLatitude: 51.86; decimalLongitude: 50.88; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: A. V. Frolov; 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: 3; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 5C76CCBD-6163-5CB9-82DC-2DC380FFC75F; Taxon: scientificName: Sisyphus schaefferi ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera ; family: Scarabaeidae ; genus: Sisyphus ; 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: A. V. Frolov; 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: 8; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 36363A19-4A50-5B05-BCCB-760783CCB9A4; Taxon: scientificName: Sisyphus schaefferi ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera ; family: Scarabaeidae ; genus: Sisyphus ; 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

The species is widely distributed in the southern Palaearctic.

Biology

The species mostly occurs in steppe and semi-desert biotopes. A generalist coprophage, feeding mostly on ungulate dung.