Aphodius (Phalacronothus) citellorum Semenov et Medvedev, 1928

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 (Phalacronothus) citellorum Semenov et Medvedev, 1928
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Aphodius (Phalacronothus) citellorum Semenov et Medvedev, 1928 View in CoL

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 6; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: C2361360-713B-5DC6-BC0A-9309FDB7334F; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius citellorum ; 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

Distribution

The species is distributed in the steppe zone of central and eastern Europe and Kazakhstan.

Biology

A nidicolous steppe species occurring in gopher and marmot holes.