Scarabaeus gangeticus explained

Scarabaeus gangeticus, is a species of dung beetle found in many Indo-African countries including; India,[1] Sri Lanka,[2] Pakistan,[3] Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Botswana, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda and Zimbabwe.[4] [5]

Description

This large broadly oval, slightly convex species has an average length of about 23 to 35 mm. Body black and sub-opaque. Legs and ventrum shiny. Lateral margins of prothorax, legs, and ventrum covered with reddish hair. Head densely and rugosely punctured. Forehead with a slight transverse carina on each side. Clypeus consists with four strong teeth which are separated by rounded notches. Pronotum finely and closely tuberculate. Scutellum not visible. Elytra very finely striate and extremely minutely and sparsely punctured. Pygidium opaque at the base, with shiny apex. Pygidium very sparsely and finely tuberculate. In male, middle tibia has a short internal fringe, whereas female has a long internal fringe.[6]

Adults are commonly found from fresh cow dungs.[7] The parasite Tarsopolipus bisetalus is observed from the adults in Botswana.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Coleoptera (Insecta) Fauna from the Indian Thar Desert, Rajasthan . 2021-07-25 . Zoos' print journal, 2004.
  2. Web site: The National Red List 2012 of Sri Lanka; Conservation Status of the Fauna and Flora . 2021-07-25 . Ministry of Environment in Sri Lanka.
  3. Web site: Noreen . S. . 2002 . A report on beetles from a newly emerging ecosystem around the evaporation ponds in Cholistan near Bahawalnagar [Pakistan] ]. 2021-07-26.
  4. Web site: Scarabaeus gangeticus (Castelnau, 1840) . 2021-07-26 . www.gbif.org . en.
  5. Web site: Replacement name for a subgenus of Scarabaeus Linné, and remarks on Scarabaeus isidis (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Scarabaeini) . 2021-07-25 . Klapalekiana, 47: 89–90, 2011.
  6. Web site: Scarabaeus gangeticus (Castelnau, 1840) . 2021-07-26 . India Biodiversity Portal.
  7. Doube . Bernard M. . September 1983 . The habitat preference of some bovine dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Hluhluwe Game Reserve, South Africa . 2021-07-26 . Bulletin of Entomological Research . 73 . 3 . 357–371 . en . 10.1017/S0007485300008968.
  8. Husband . Robert W. . 1989-09-01 . A revision of the genus Tarsopolipus (Acari: Podapolipidae), parasites of African and European Scarabaeidae, with description of three new species . 2021-07-26 . International Journal of Acarology . 15 . 3 . 163–178 . 10.1080/01647958908683842.

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