Aphodius
| Aphodius | |
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| Aphodius contaminatus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabeiformia |
| Superfamily: | Scarabaeoidea |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Aphodius Illiger, 1798 |
Aphodius is a genus of beetles in the Scarabaeidae family.[1][2][3] In their larval stage they feed on dung.[4]
Species
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Aphodius ghardimaouensis
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Aphodius septemmaculatus
This genus has numerous species:[5]
- Aphodius ater (De Geer, 1774)
- Aphodius bimaculatus (Laxman, 1778)
- Aphodius borealis Gyllenhal, 1827
- Aphodius brevis Erichson, 1848
- Aphodius coenosus (Panzer, 1798)
- Aphodius conspurcatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius contaminatus (Herbst, 1783)
- Aphodius depressus (Kugelann, 1792)
- Aphodius distinctus (Müller, 1776)
- Aphodius equestris (Panzer, 1798)
- Aphodius erraticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius fimetarius (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius foetens (Fabricius, 1787)
- Aphodius foetidus (Herbst, 1783)
- Aphodius fossor (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius frater Mulsant & Rey, 1872
- Aphodius gissaricus Akhmetova & Frolov, 2012[6]
- Aphodius granarius (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Aphodius haemorrhoidalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius ictericus (Laicharting, 1781)
- Aphodius immundus Creutzer, 1799
- Aphodius lapponum Gyllenhal, 1806
- Aphodius lividus (Olivier, 1789)
- Aphodius lugens Creutzer, 1799
- Aphodius luridus (Fabricius, 1775)
- Aphodius melanostictus Schmidt, 1840
- Aphodius merdarius (Fabricius, 1775)
- Aphodius nemoralis Erichson, 1848
- Aphodius niger (Panzer, 1797)
- Aphodius obliteratus Panzer, 1823
- Aphodius obscurus (Fabricius, 1792)
- Aphodius paykulli Bedel, 1908
- Aphodius piceus Gyllenhal, 1808
- Aphodius pictus Sturm, 1805
- Aphodius plagiatus (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Aphodius porcus (Fabricius, 1792)
- Aphodius prodromus (Brahm, 1790)
- Aphodius punctatosulcatus Sturm, 1805
- Aphodius punctipennis Erichson, 1848
- Aphodius pusillus (Herbst, 1789)
- Aphodius putridus (Geoffroy, 1785)
- Aphodius quadriguttatus (Herbst, 1783)
- Aphodius quadrimaculatus (Linnaeus, 1761)
- Aphodius rufipes (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius rufus (Moll, 1782)
- Aphodius scrofa (Fabricius, 1787)
- Aphodius serotinus (Panzer, 1799)
- Aphodius sordidus (Fabricius, 1775)
- Aphodius sphacelatus (Panzer, 1798)
- Aphodius subterraneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius tomentosus (Müller, 1776)
- Aphodius uliginosus (Hardy, 1847)
- Aphodius varians Duftschmid, 1805
- Aphodius zenkeri Germar, 1813
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2011-05-19.
- ↑
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
- ↑ Valiela, Ivan (1974). "Composition, food webs, and population limitation in dung arthropod communities during invasion and succession"journal=American Midland Naturalist". 92: 370–385, from page 380. doi:10.2307/2424302.
- ↑ Aphodius at fuent.fi
- ↑ Akhmetova, L. & Frolov, A. (2012). "A new scarab species, Aphodius gissaricus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: APhodiinae), from the Pamir-Alay mountains in Tajikistan." Zootaxa 3159: 65-68.
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