Aphodius clathratus Reitter, 1892

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

clathratus Chilothorax Aphodius Scarabaeidae Coleoptera Insecta Arthropoda Animalia

Aphodius clathratus Reitter, 1892

Materials

Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: V. Kozlov; individualCount: 3; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: Dosang environs, fixed sands ; decimalLatitude: 46.92; decimalLongitude: 47.92; Event: samplingProtocol: horse dung washing; eventDate: 2005-10-29; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: V. Kozlov; individualCount: 6; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: 7 km NNE of Dosang ; decimalLatitude: 46.93; decimalLongitude: 48.00; Event: samplingProtocol: horse dung washing; eventDate: 2005-10-31; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: V. Kozlov; individualCount: 6; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: 7 km NNE of Dosang ; decimalLatitude: 46.93; decimalLongitude: 48.00; Event: samplingProtocol: horse dung washing; eventDate: 2005-11-01; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: A. V. Frolov, L. A. Akhmetova; individualCount: 3; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: Dosang environs, fixed sands ; decimalLatitude: 46.92; decimalLongitude: 47.92; Event: samplingProtocol: old horse dung, larvae hand collecting; eventDate: 2008-04-09; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Ecological interactions

Feeds on

Adults and larvae feed on horse dung.

Distribution

The species was recorded from Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, and Middle Asia ( Nikolajev 1987). The range of it is unclear since it is difficult to separate from the closely-related and very similar Aphodius melanostictus . Some published records of Aphodius clathratus apparently belong to Aphodius melanostictus .