Biology:Alissonotum piceum

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Short description: Species of beetle


Alissonotum piceum
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Alissonotum
Species:
A. piceum
Binomial name
Alissonotum piceum
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Scarabaeus piceus Fabricius, 1775
  • Geotrupes piceus Fabricius, 1801
  • Heteronychus piceum Burmeister, 1847
  • Phileurus detractus Walker, 1859
  • Alissonotum piceum Arrow, 1910

Alissonotum piceum, is a species of dung beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Réunion island and Mauritius.[1][2]

Biology

Male genitalia consists with elongated phallobase, slender and oval paramere and much outward prolonged apex.[3] Aedeagus is about 3.65 mm in size.

Both adult and grub are found in the furrows and the sugarcane setts.[4] Sometimes they bore through the shoot bases.[5] The species is known to parasitized by Tiphia parallela.[2]

One subspecies is recorded: Alissonotum piceum besucheti, Endrödi, 1977.[6]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q14872056 entry