Aphodius (Colobopterus) erraticus (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-

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scientific name	Aphodius (Colobopterus) erraticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Aphodius (Colobopterus) erraticus (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 2; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: FF3FC2BA-042F-539C-A636-EBAC31DD9824; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius erraticus ; 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: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 4CDE1063-CA63-5478-9670-A5C1FA9C474A; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius erraticus ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera ; family: Scarabaeidae ; genus: Aphodius ; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Samara; locality: Bol’shechernigovskij distr., 3.54 km SSW of Polyanskij vill., gully bottom, forb-grass steppe. ; decimalLatitude: 51.86; decimalLongitude: 50.88; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak , near burrow entrance; eventDate: 2023-04 - 28; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Distribution

The species occurs in Europe (except for the extreme north), west, middle and Central Asia; it was imported to North America. In Russia, it is distributed throughout the country.

Biology

This eurybiont species is abundant throughout its range occurring mostly in open biotopes, in the dung of domestic and wild animals.