Alissonotum piceum explained

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.

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vercambre . Bernard . Pastou . Didier . Aberlenc . Henri-Pierre . Manikom . Ronald . 2007 . Alissonotum piceum besucheti Endrödi, 1977, espèce nouvelle pour l'île de la Réunion" (Coleoptera, Dynastidae) . 2021-07-16 . Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France . 349–356.
  2. Web site: Datasheet: Alissonotum piceum . 2021-07-15 . CABI.
  3. Web site: Studies on Rhinoceros Beetles (Coleoptera— Scarabaeidae—Dynastinae) from Madhya Pradesh, central India . 2021-07-15 . Colemania, Number 34, pp. 1-9.
  4. Web site: Alissonotum piceum besucheti Endrödi, 1977: a new introduction in Reunion Island (Coleoptera, Dynastidae). . 2021-07-16 . www.cabdirect.org . en.
  5. Web site: Biology and ecology of sugarcane white grubs in Mauritius . 2021-07-15 . XXI Congress of ISSCT …, 1995.
  6. Web site: Alissonotum piceum besucheti subsp. n. (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae, Dynastinae) [1977] ]. 2021-07-15 . Revue suisse de zoologie, 1977.

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