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Aphodius fimetarius, Austria Aphodius coniugatus, Ukraine. Aphodius is a genus of beetles in the family Scarabaeidae.In most species both the adults and larvae are coprophagous (dung feeding) [1] although some species have herbivorous or saprophagous larvae. [2]
Aphodius foetidus (Herbst, 1783) Aphodius pedellus (De Geer, 1774) Aphodius ictericus (Laicharting, 1781) Aphodius granarius (Linnaeus, 1767) Aphodius conspurcatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Aphodius distinctus (O. F. Müller, 1776) Aphodius paykulli Bedel, 1907; Aphodius erraticus (Linnaeus, 1758) Aphodius merdarius (Fabricius, 1775) Aphodius pusillus ...
Aphodius ater (DeGeer, 1774) Aphodius borealis Gyllenhal, 1827; Aphodius conspurcatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Aphodius constans Duftscmid, 1805; Aphodius contaminatus (Herbst, 1783) Aphodius depressus (Kugelann, 1792) Aphodius erraticus (Linnaeus, 1758) Aphodius fasciatus (Olivier, 1789) nec (Linnaeus, 1758) Aphodius fimetarius (Linnaeus, 1758
Scarabaeus erraticus – Colobopterus erraticus [8] Scarabaeus maurus – Glaphyrus maurus [9] Scarabaeus fossor – Teuchestes fossor [8] Scarabaeus fimetarius – Aphodius fimetarius [8] Scarabaeus haemorrhoidalis – Aphodius haemorrhoidalis [8] Scarabaeus conspurcatus – Chilothorax conspurcatus; Scarabaeus gigas – Heliocopris gigas [2]
Aphodiinae is a subfamily of the scarab beetle family, Scarabaeidae.Members of this subfamily are known commonly as the small dung beetles and many, but not all, are dung beetles. [1]
This is a list of 364 genera in the family Aphodiidae, according to sources that recognize this lineage as a family rather than a subfamily. [1] Note that in many classifications, many of the genera listed here are classified as subgenera of the genus Aphodius, and fewer than 300 genera are recognized in total.
The outer body ranges from dark brown to black, while the legs are black with a red tinge. At 9–13 millimetres (0.35–0.51 in) in size, it is one of the largest of the genus Aphodius. It has ten ridges on each of its wing-covers (called elytra). [2] It has a shovel-shaped head which it used to move the earth when it burrows.
Aphodius and Bodiloides species usually develop within the dung heaps. However, a more recent study in southern Spain has shown that in a very dry area there, the larvae of a large number of these species develop in portions of feces that have been buried by other beetle species and are thus better protected from drying out.