Aphodius
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| Genus: | Aphodius Illiger, 1798
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Aphodius is a genus of beetles in the family Scarabaeidae.[1][2][3] In most species both the adults and larvae are coprophagous (dung feeding)[4] although some species have herbivorous or saprophagous larvae.[5] Aphodius species typically dominate dung beetle communities in north temperate ecosystems.[6] Most species are functionally classified as endocoprids, also known as dwellers, because the larvae live and feed within the dung pat itself.[7]
Species
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This genus includes nearly 1,650 described species:[8]
- 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[9]
- 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.
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- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-27. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ 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.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Hanksi, Ilkka and Cambefort, Yves. Dung Beetle Ecology. Princeton University Press, p. 83.
- ^ Hanksi, Ilkka and Cambefort, Yves. Dung Beetle Ecology. Princeton University Press, p. 75.
- ^ Finn, J. A.; Gittings, T. (2003). "A review of competition in north temperate dung beetle communities". Ecological Entomology. 28 (1): 1–13. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00487.x.
- ^ Hanksi, Ilkka and Cambefort, Yves. Dung Beetle Ecology. Princeton University Press, p. 39.
- ^ 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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