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Catharsius tricornutus
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Description
Catharsius tricornutus (De Geer, 1778) (Fig. 3B)
Previously recorded from Angola, DRC, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe (Ferreira 1972).
New country record for Swaziland: Four specimens, Malolotja Nature Reserve, 14–15 April 2015 and 1 April 2016. One specimen, Mantenga Nature Reserve, 2 April 2015. Crepuscular/nocturnal. At Malolotja Nature Reserve, specimens were found in burrows under zebra dung, and in zebra dung-baited pitfall traps operated overnight. At Mantenga Nature Reserve, a specimen was dug out of a burrow underneath cattle dung, and elytra and other fragments were found.
Genus Heliocopris Hope, 1837
Notes
Published as part of Gillett, Conrad P. D. T. & Barr, Iain, 2018, New Country Records of Scarab Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Swaziland and Zambia, pp. 433-438 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3) on page 436, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-72.3.433, http://zenodo.org/record/5383463
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- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.5383465 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.1649/0010-065X-72.3.433 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5383463 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFDA5B5DFF84336687633D48FFE8FFB5 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03E32325FF80336287A53B7AFBDFFE63 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2015-04-02
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Catharsius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- De Geer
- Species
- tricornutus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2015-04-02
- Taxonomic concept label
- Catharsius tricornutus (Geer, 1778) sec. Gillett & Barr, 2018
References
- Ferreira, M. C. 1972. Os escarab'ideos de Africa (sul do Saara). I. Revista de Entomologia de Mocambique 11: 5 - 1088.