Copris sarpedon Harold, 1868

Abbas, Muhammad, Khaliq, Sobia, Masroor, Rafaqat & Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, 2024, A checklist of the dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) deposited at Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (2), pp. 415-430 : 420

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https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.10.2.415

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scientific name

Copris sarpedon Harold, 1868
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Copris sarpedon Harold, 1868 View in CoL ( Fig. 1I) (C#72441)

Copris sarpedon Harold, 1868:75 . Type locality: India; Copris pompilius Waterhouse, 1875 ; Copris sexdentatus Redtenbacher, 1844 .

Material examined. PAKISTAN, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 4 specimens, Chitral, 13.VIII.2013 , 7 specimens, Swat, 12.VII.2007, leg. & det. M. Abbas.

Remarks. This species represents the new country record for Pakistan and extends the distribution across India to Pakistan. It is distributed in the Himalayan moist temperate forests in the mountainous environments and is mostly found in the vicinities of human habitations in the rocky habitats.

Distribution. Azad Kashmir: Rawalakot ( Siddiqui et al., 2014).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Copris

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