Aphodius fimetarius (Linnaeus, 1758)

Frolov, Andrey & Akhmetova, Lilia, 2013, A contribution to the study of the Lower Volga center of scarab beetle diversity in Russia: checklist of the tribe Aphodiini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) of Dosang environs, Biodiversity Data Journal 1, pp. 979-979 : 979

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e979

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scientific name

Aphodius fimetarius (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

fimetarius Aphodius Aphodius

Aphodius fimetarius (Linnaeus, 1758)

Materials

Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: A. V. Frolov, L. A. Akhmetova; individualCount: 2; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: Dosang environs, fixed sands ; decimalLatitude: 46.92; decimalLongitude: 47.92; Event: samplingProtocol: horse dung washing; eventDate: 2006-10-09; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera GoogleMaps

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

Cattle and wild herbivore dung.

Distribution

Transpalearctic species, introduced in North America and Australia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Aphodiidae

Genus

Aphodius