Copris sacontala Redtenbacher, 1848

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

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17026388

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Copris sacontala Redtenbacher, 1848
status

 

Copris sacontala Redtenbacher, 1848 View in CoL ( Fig. 1H) (C#54303)

Corpis sacontala Redtenbacher, 1848:519 . Type locality: India.

Material examined. PAKISTAN, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 1 specimen, Chitral , 10.VII.2011 , 1 specimen, Kurram Agency , 09.VIII.2013, leg. & det. M. Abbas , 4 specimen, Buner , 1.VII-VIII.2000, leg. M. Bashir, det. S. Khaliq ; Punjab: 7 specimens, Murree , 10. V.2009, leg. & det. M. Abbas.

Remarks. This species is found in the Himalayan dry temperate forests, inner valleys in the mountainous environments in sandy to heavy loamy soils and mostly in grasslands and pastures in cooler regime and is particularly good tolerant to frost.

Distribution. Locality unknown ( Schoolmeesters, 2024), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Buner, Chitral, Kurram Agency; Punjab: Murree (current study).

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Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Copris

Loc

Copris sacontala Redtenbacher, 1848

Abbas, Muhammad, Khaliq, Sobia, Masroor, Rafaqat & Hassan, Muhammad Asghar 2024
2024
Loc

Corpis sacontala

Redtenbacher 1848: 519
1848
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