Scarabaeus puncticollis

Scarabaeus puncticollis is a species of beetles belonging to the family Scarabaeidae.

Scarabaeus puncticollis
Scarabaeus puncticollis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Scarabaeidae
Genus:
Scarabaeus
Species:
S. puncticollis
Binomial name
Scarabaeus puncticollis
(Latreille, 1819
Synonyms
  • Ateuchetus puncticollis (Latreille, 1819) [1]
  • Scarabaeus hypocrita Castelnau, 1840
  • Scarabaeus nudifrons Fischer von Waldheim, 1823
  • Scarabaeus parapunctatus Klug, 1845
  • Scarabaeus sericeus Motschulsky, 1849

[2]

Description

Scarabaeus puncticollis has a distinctive set of points (hence the Latin species name puncticollis) along the basal margin of the pronotum. The head has a characteristic array of six projections, resembling rays. These projections are similar to four more projections on each of the tibiae of the front legs. All these projections are adaptations for digging and for forming balls of dung. The mid- and hind-legs have normal, well-developed 5-segmented tarsi. These beetles feed exclusively on dung.[3]

Distribution

This species is present in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Portugal, Spain and North Africa.[4]

Bibliography
  • Motschulsky V. (1849) Coleopteres recus d'un voyage de M.Handschuch dans le midi de l'Espagne, enumeres et suivis de notes, Bulletin de la Société imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou. Moscou 22(3):52-163 (99-121)
  • Klug J.C.F (1845) Symbolae physicae, seu icones et descriptiones insectorum quae ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam occidentalem Federici Guilelmi Hemprich et Christiani Godofredi Ehremberg medicinae et chirurgiae doctorum studio novae aut illustratae redierunt. Bero, Mittler. Berlin
  • Castelnau F. (1840) Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Coléoptères. Avec une introduction renfermant L'Anatomie et la Physiologie des Animaux Articulés, par M.Brullé, P.Duménil. Paris 2:1-564
  • Fischer von Waldheim G. (1823) Entomographia imperii russici; genera insectorum systematice exposita et analysi iconographica instructa, (1823-1824) 2:1-262 (143-152)(189-218)
  • Latreille P.A. (1819) Des insectes peints ou sculpés sur les monuments de l'Egypte, Mémoires du Muséum nationale d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 5:249-270
  • Scarabs: World Scarabaeidae Database. Schoolmeesters P., 2011-05-30

References
  1. Biolib
  2. Scarabaeinae dung beetles
  3. Entomologi italiani
  4. "Scarabaeus (Ateuchetus) puncticollis (Latreille 1819)". Fauna europaea. 2.6.2. August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 14, 2015.


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