Aphodius (Nialus) varians Duftschmid, 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.13800837
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scientific name	Aphodius (Nialus) varians Duftschmid, 1805
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Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 13; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 70EAF21A-425D-56B1-B2EE-E6C05052EFAF; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius varians ; 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 distribution range of this species includes central and southern Europe, North Africa, the Transcaucasus, Asia Minor, Kazakhstan and Middle Asia. In Russia, it is mostly distributed in the steppe zone and forest-steppe subzone of the zone of deciduous forest from the western border to South Siberia.

Biology

The species occurs in diverse biotopes, in cow and horse dung and in riverside debris.