Biology:Delopleurus parvus
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Short description: Species of beetle
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| Genus: | Delopleurus
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| Species: | D. parvus
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| Delopleurus parvus (Sharp, 1875)
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Delopleurus parvus, is a species of dung beetle found in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.[1][2][3]
Description
This small subquadrate, highly convex species has an average length of about 5 to 6 mm. Body black, and shiny. Antennae, and mouthparts are red in color with yellowish antennal club. Head densely and rugosely punctured. Elytra trapezoidal. Elytra finely striate with very strong widely spaced punctures. Bilobate pygidium with wide borders.[4]
The species has found in habitats such as under a puffball fungus.[5]
References
- ↑ Frolov, Andrey V. (2015-01-25). "Revision of the genus Delopleurus Boheman (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with description of new species from Africa". pp. 129–154. doi:10.1080/00222933.2014.909072. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2014.909072.
- ↑ Mittal, I.C.; Jain, Rahul (2015). "A checklist of Indian Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)" (in en). pp. 383. doi:10.5958/0974-8172.2015.00076.0. http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:ije&volume=77&issue=4&article=010.
- ↑ Sabu, Thomas K.; Nithya, S.; Vinod, K. V. (2011-04-22). "Faunal survey, endemism and possible species loss of Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in the western slopes of the moist South Western Ghats, South India". pp. 29. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2830.1.3. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2830.1.3.
- ↑ "Delopleurus parvus (Sharp, 1875)". https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/275768.
- ↑ "Report of dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) attracted to unconventional resources, with the description of three new species". https://www.atree.res.in/sites/default/files/Dung%20beetles%20on%20unconventional%20resources_three%20new%20species_SNK_PDR%20%282%29.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q14921718 entry
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