Published June 18, 2024 | Version v1
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Aphodius (Euorodalus) coenosus

  • 1. Zoological Institute RAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  • 2. Samara National Research University, Department of Ecology, Botany and Nature Protection, Samara, Russia

Description

Aphodius (Euorodalus) coenosus (Panzer, 1798)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 08E1A3B1-DD29-52C3-BDA8-4CCBC65921C9; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius coenosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Scarabaeidae; genus: Aphodius; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Orenburg; locality: Pervomaiskij Distr., 6.28 km SSW of Polyanskij vill., urochishche Pal’govo, gully bottom, forb-fescue steppe.; decimalLatitude: 51.83; decimalLongitude: 50.87; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak, near burrow entrance; eventDate: 2023-05 - 18; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: F383FB0B-9502-5C14-A07F-5663DCB4F9F1; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius coenosus; 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

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 2; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 409FA26D-688C-5576-A9FA-EC78B9379AF6; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius coenosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Scarabaeidae; genus: Aphodius; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Samara; locality: Bol’shechernigovskij distr., 2.44 km SSW of Polyanskij vill., gully Barsuchikha, forb-fescue-feather grass steppe; decimalLatitude: 51.9; decimalLongitude: 50.93; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak, in toilet burrow; eventDate: 2023-05 - 19; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3F044CFE-5745-5150-89CF-632D1ABF854C; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius coenosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Scarabaeidae; genus: Aphodius; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Samara; locality: Bol’shechernigovskij distr., 3.54 km SSW of Polyanskij vill., gully bottom, forb-grass steppe.; decimalLatitude: 51.86; decimalLongitude: 50.88; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak, near burrow entrance; eventDate: 2023-04 - 28; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera

Distribution

The distribution range of this species includes almost the whole of Europe (except for the extreme north), the Transcaucasus, Asia Minor, west Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. In Russia, the species is known from Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Saratov, Volgograd and Astrakhan Provinces.

Biology

A coprophagous species occurring in the dung of cows, horses and wild ungulates. The species occurs in different biotopes: in eastern Europe, in forests; Isajev (1995) recorded it from steppes; we collected it on sandy soils on the Akhtuba riverside in Dosang environs (Astrakhan Prov.).

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. e 125090 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e125090, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e125090

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZIN
Event date
2023-04-28 , 2023-05-18 , 2023-05-19
Verbatim event date
2023-04-28 , 2023-05-18 , 2023-05-19
Scientific name authorship
Panzer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Aphodius
Species
coenosus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
Other material
Taxonomic concept label
Aphodius (Euorodalus) coenosus (Panzer, 1798) sec. Akhmetova, Kurochkin & Frolov, 2024

References

  • Isajev A. Yu. 1995 Contribution to the Knowledge of Scarab Beetles (Coleoptera. Lamellicornia: Lucanidae, Trogidae, Scarabaeidae) of Ulyanovsk Province Polyanskov Yu. V. Insects of Ulyanovsk Province 2 Institute of Ecology of the Volga Basin RAS Ulyanovsk Russian