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Ataenius spretulus Haldeman 1848

  • 1. 33493 " S " Avenue Adel, Iowa 50003
  • 2. 168 Thompson Drive SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52403
  • 3. Biology Department, University of Mississippi University, Mississippi 38677

Description

Ataenius spretulus Haldeman, 1848

Cartwright 1974; Stebnicka and Lago 2005; Worthington and Larsen 2010; ISIC; ELFC; PKLC.

Collection dates: March–September.

Collected at light and in flight during day.

County records (Figure 77): Allamakee, Appanoose, Black Hawk, Dallas, Decatur, Fremont, Lee, Lucas, Osceola, Polk, Scott, Story, Taylor, Van Buren, Winneshiek.

Notes

Published as part of Freese, Edwin L., Veal, Doug A. & Lago, Paul K., 2020, The Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) of Iowa: An annotated checklist, pp. 1-83 in Insecta Mundi 2020 (787) on page 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5353792

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Aphodiidae
Genus
Ataenius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Haldeman
Species
spretulus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ataenius spretulus Haldeman, 1848 sec. Freese, Veal & Lago, 2020

References

  • Cartwright, O. L. 1974. Ataenius, Aphotaenius, and Pseudoataenius of the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Smithsonian Contribution to Zoology 154: 1 - 106.
  • Stebnicka, Z. T., and P. K. Lago. 2005. The New World species of Ataenius Harold, 1867. V. Revision of the A. strigatus group (Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae: Eupariini). Insecta Mundi 19 (1 - 2): 55 - 83.
  • Worthington, R. J., and K. J. Larsen. 2010. An annotated checklist of scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from northeastern Iowa. The Great Lakes Entomologist 43 (1 - 4): 77 - 90.