Aphodius (Trichonotulus) scrofa (Fabricius, 1787)

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 (Trichonotulus) scrofa (Fabricius, 1787)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 6; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 7B8E6E5A-053F-5359-B102-1F9D8DE968CA; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius scrofa ; 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

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 4; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: D67C18F8-46D7-5028-8D46-49E107055B5E; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius scrofa ; 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

Distribution

The species occurs in Europe (up to Finland in the north), North Africa ( Morocco), the Caucasus, the Transcaucasus, Asia Minor, Kazakhstan, Middle Asia, Afghanistan, Mongolia, China, North Korea. It was imported to Canada and the USA. In Russia, the species is mostly distributed in the forest-steppe subzone of the deciduous forest zone from the western border to the Amur Region.

Biology

A coprophagous species occurring in ungulate dung.