Aphodius (Melinopterus) prodromus (Brahm, 1790)

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 (Melinopterus) prodromus (Brahm, 1790)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 5744E2FA-28D7-50D4-957E-69DFEEBDA6B4; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius prodromus ; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera ; family: Scarabaeidae ; genus: Aphodius ; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Orenburg; locality: Pervomaiskij Distr., 7.32 km SSW of Koshkin vill., urochishche Pal’govo, gully bottom, forb-wormwood-grass steppe. ; decimalLatitude: 51.82; decimalLongitude: 50.86; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak , near burrow entrance; eventDate: 2023-05 - 19; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Distribution

The species occurs throughout Europe, in North Africa ( Morocco, Algeria), the Caucasus, the Transcaucasus, Asia Minor, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Kazakhstan, middle Asia and Mongolia; it was imported to USA and Canada. In Russia, it is distributed from the western border to Yakutia.

Biology

A coprophagous species feeding on dung of cows, horses and wild ungulates. In Russia, this species is common; in southern regions, it occurs from March to December.