taxonID	type	description	language	source
03CA87E35C48FFAB6F99FDC0FBBEFCB9.taxon	description	1) Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022, Russia. * Corresponding author. Email: oxecetonia @ mail. ru 2) Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia. Email: Lilia. Akhmetova @ zin. ru, afrolov @ zin. ru Summary. The dung-beetle species Aphodius botulus Balthasar, 1945 was recorded in Russia for the first time based on the specimens collected from Primorskii krai. Photographs of the imago habitus, male genitalia, and a map of collecting localities in Russia are provided.	en	Shabalin, S. A., Akhmetova, L. A., Frolov, A. V. (2024): NEW TO RUSSIA SPECIES OF THE GENUS APHODIUS (COLEOPTERA, SCRABAEIDAE). Far Eastern Entomologist 509: 7-10, DOI: 10.25221/fee.509.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.509.2
03CA87E35C49FFA96EADFEF4FBA0FEF0.taxon	description	Figs 1 – 4	en	Shabalin, S. A., Akhmetova, L. A., Frolov, A. V. (2024): NEW TO RUSSIA SPECIES OF THE GENUS APHODIUS (COLEOPTERA, SCRABAEIDAE). Far Eastern Entomologist 509: 7-10, DOI: 10.25221/fee.509.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.509.2
03CA87E35C49FFA96EADFEF4FBA0FEF0.taxon	materials_examined	MATERIAL. Russia: Primorskii krai: valley of Ryazanovka River (42 ° 82 ' N, 131 ° 23 ' E), 29. V 2018, 19 specimens in sheep dung, leg. S. Shabalin; same locality, 7. VI 2018, 9 specimens in sheep and cow dung, leg. S. Shabalin; same locality, 15. VI 2018, 5 specimens in sheep and cow dung, leg. S. Shabalin; same locality, 6. VII 2018, 1 specimen in sheep dung, leg. S. Shabalin; Safari-Park (43 ° 32 ' N, 132 ° 40 ' E), 8. VI 2020, 3 specimens in deer dung, leg. S. Shabalin; 5 km E Romanovka (43 ° 23 ' N, 132 ° 52 ' E) 15. V 2019, 6 specimens in cow dung, leg. S. Shabalin; vicinity Peretino (43 ° 00 ' N, 133 ° 14 ' E), 15. V 2019, 1 specimen in cow dung, leg. S. Shabalin; 16 km SSE Partizansk (43 ° 06 ' N, 133 ° 18 ' E), 15. V 2019, 19 specimens in sheep dung, leg. S. Shabalin; same locality, 24. V 2019, 11 specimens in sheep dung, leg. S. Shabalin; same locality, 3. VI 2019, 8 specimens in sheep dung, leg. S. Shabalin; same locality, 12. VI 2019, 2 specimens in sheep dung, leg. S. Shabalin; 15 km NNE Partizansk (43 ° 26 ' N, 133 ° 17 ' E), 15. V 2019, 202 specimens in horse and cow dung, leg. S. Shabalin; same locality, 24. V 2019, 8 specimens in horse and cow dung, leg. S. Shabalin; same locality, 3. VI 2019, 7 specimens in horse and cow dung, leg. S. Shabalin; Novogordeevka (44 ° 03 ' N, 133 ° 14 ' E), 15. V 2020, 1 specimen in horse dung, leg. S. Shabalin; same locality, 23. V 2020, 1 specimen in horse dung, leg. S. Shabalin; vicinity of Kornilovka, 15. V 2020, 2 specimens in cow dung, leg. S. Shabalin; same locality, 23. V 2020, 1 specimen cow dung, leg. S. Shabalin. Four specimens from the valley of Ryazanovka River are deposited in the collection of the Zoological Institute (Saint Petersburg), but the rest material deposited in the collection of the Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity (Vladivostok).	en	Shabalin, S. A., Akhmetova, L. A., Frolov, A. V. (2024): NEW TO RUSSIA SPECIES OF THE GENUS APHODIUS (COLEOPTERA, SCRABAEIDAE). Far Eastern Entomologist 509: 7-10, DOI: 10.25221/fee.509.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.509.2
03CA87E35C49FFA96EADFEF4FBA0FEF0.taxon	distribution	DISTRIBUTION. Russia (first record, Primorskii krai), Japan (Honshu, Kyushu), North Korea, China (Heilongjiang, Jilin). NOTES. Adults of Aphodius botulus can be separated from other species of subgenus Phalacronothus recorded from Russia, namely A. biguttatus Germar, 1824, A. citellorum Semenov et Medvedev, 1928, and A. quadrimaculatus, by denser and coarser punctation of head, pronotum and elytra, and by the shape of the parameres. In Primorskii krai, A. botulus occurs along with the more abundant A. pusillus, and can be confused with it. It differs from the latter, apart from the characters mentioned above, also in having a hooked protibial spur in males and in a smaller average size. In North Korea, the beetles were found in sheep and cow dung (Stebnicka, 1980). In addition to the dung of abovementioned animals, in Russia the beetles were also found in horse and deer dung. Our data suggest that A. botulus is a generalist coprophagous species with imago active mostly in late spring and early summer.	en	Shabalin, S. A., Akhmetova, L. A., Frolov, A. V. (2024): NEW TO RUSSIA SPECIES OF THE GENUS APHODIUS (COLEOPTERA, SCRABAEIDAE). Far Eastern Entomologist 509: 7-10, DOI: 10.25221/fee.509.2, URL: https://doi.org/10.25221/fee.509.2
