Biology:Copris sodalis
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Short description: Species of beetle
| Copris sodalis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Copris |
| Species: | C. sodalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Copris sodalis Walker, 1858
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Copris sodalis, is a species of dung beetle found in India, and Sri Lanka.[2]
Description
This shortly oval, very convex species has an average length of about 15 mm. Body black, shiny and smooth. Antennae, and mouthparts are red in color. Hairs upon the legs and the sides of ventrum are also reddish. Shiny head is finely and rugosely punctured. Pronotum and metasternal shield are unpunctured almost without punctures. Elytra are deeply sulcate. Pygidium fairly strongly and less punctured. In male, there is a slender compressed horn in head. Female has a short, transverse, elevated carina in head.[3]
References
- ↑ "Copris sodalis". https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4997539.html.
- ↑ "Linking biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of dung beetles in South and Southeast Asian tropical rainforests". https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Janice-Ser-Huay-Lee/publication/228089888_Linking_biodiversity_and_ecosystem_functioning_of_dung_beetles_in_South_and_Southeast_Asian_tropical_rainforests/links/02e7e5322ba085bf5f000000/Linking-biodiversity-and-ecosystem-functioning-of-dung-beetles-in-South-and-Southeast-Asian-tropical-rainforests.pdf.
- ↑ "Copris sodalis Walker, 1858". https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/1762.
Wikidata ☰ Q14880708 entry
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