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Geotrupidae
Geotrupidae (from Greek γῆ ''(gē)'', earth, and τρῡπητής ''(trȳpētēs)'', borer) is a family of beetles in the order Coleoptera. They are commonly called earth-boring dung beetles or dor beetles. Most excavate burrows in which to lay their eggs. They are typically detritivores, provisioning their nests with leaf litter (often moldy), but are occasionally coprophagous, similar to dung beetles. The eggs are laid in or upon the provision mass and buried, and the developing larvae feed upon the provisions. The burrows of some species can exceed 2 metres in depth. A few species communicate by stridulation (rubbing body parts together to make sounds). Classification They were originally classified as the subfamily Geotrupinae in the family Scarabaeidae before being elevated to a family. Traditionally the family Bolboceratidae was included (as the subfamily Bolboceratinae) on the basis of the number of antenna segments, but examination of a different set of characteris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anoplotrupes Stercorosus
''Anoplotrupes stercorosus'', the dor beetle, is a species of earth-boring dung beetles, dung beetle belonging to the family Geotrupidae, subfamily Geotrupinae. Varieties Varieties or forms that have been recognized at times include the following: *''A. stercorosus'' var. ''viridis'' (Dalla Torre, 1879) *''A. stercorosus'' var. ''amoethystinus'' (Mulsant, 1842) *''A. stercorosus'' var. ''nigrinus'' (Mulsant, 1842) *''A. stercorosus'' ab. ''juvenilis'' (Mulsant, 1842) These are now regarded as synonyms of the parent taxon; the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature does not recognize named forms other than subspecies. Distribution This beetle is present throughout Europe (Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dung Beetle
Dung beetles are beetles that feed on feces. Some species of dung beetles can bury dung 250 times their own mass in one night. Many dung beetles, known as ''rollers'', roll dung into round balls, which are used as a food source or breeding chambers. Others, known as ''tunnelers'', bury the dung wherever they find it. A third group, the ''dwellers'', neither roll nor burrow: they simply live in dung. They are often attracted by the feces collected by burrowing owls. There are dung beetle species of various colors and sizes, and some functional traits such as body mass (or biomass) and leg length can have high levels of variability. All the species belong to the superfamily Scarabaeoidea, most of them to the subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae of the family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles). As most species of Scarabaeinae feed exclusively on feces, that subfamily is often dubbed ''true dung beetles''. There are dung-feeding beetles which belong to other families, such as the Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geotrupinae
Geotrupinae is a subfamily of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are more than 30 genera and 450 described species in Geotrupinae. Genera These 31 genera belong to the subfamily Geotrupinae: * '' Allotrupes'' François, 1904 * '' Anoplotrupes'' Jekel, 1865 * '' Ceratophyus'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1823 * '' Ceratotrupes'' Jekel, 1865 * '' Chelotrupes'' Jekel, 1866 * '' Cnemotrupes'' Jekel, 1866 * '' Enoplotrupes'' Lucas, 1869 * '' Epigeotrupes'' Bovo & Zunino, 1983 * '' Geohowdenius'' Zunino, 1984 * ''Geotrupes'' Latreille, 1796 * '' Geotrupoides'' Handlirsch, 1906 * '' Glyptogeotrupes'' Nikolaev, 1979 * '' Halffterius'' Zunino, 1984 * '' Haplogeotrupes'' Nikolaev, 1979 * '' Jekelius'' Lopez-Colon, 1989 * '' Lethrus'' Scopoli, 1777 * '' Megatrupes'' Zunino, 1984 * '' Mycotrupes'' LeConte, 1866 * '' Odontotrypes'' Fairmaire, 1887 * '' Onthotrupes'' Howden, 1964 * '' Peltotrupes'' Blanchard, 1888 * '' Phelotrupes'' Jekel, 1866 * '' Pseudotrypocopris'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anoplotrupes
''Anoplotrupes'' is a genus of earth-boring dung beetles belonging to the family Geotrupidae subfamily Geotrupinae Geotrupinae is a subfamily of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are more than 30 genera and 450 described species in Geotrupinae. Genera These 31 genera belong to the subfamily Geotrupinae: * '' Allotrupes'' Françoi .... Species Species within this genus include: *'' Anoplotrupes balyi'' (Jekel, 1866) *'' Anoplotrupes hornii'' (Blanchard, 1888) *'' Anoplotrupes stercorosus'' (Hartmann in L.G. Scriba, 1791) References {{Taxonbar, from=Q2852320 Geotrupidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceratophyus
''Ceratophyus'' is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are about 13 described species in ''Ceratophyus''. Species These 13 species belong to the genus ''Ceratophyus'': * ''Ceratophyus alloini'' Prunier, Tauzin & Rosset, 2016 * ''Ceratophyus dauricus'' (Jekel, 1865) * ''Ceratophyus gopherinus'' Cartwright, 1966 (gopher beetle) * ''Ceratophyus hoffmannseggi'' (Fairmaire, 1856) * ''Ceratophyus kabaki'' Nikolajev, 2007 * ''Ceratophyus maghrebinicus'' Hillert & Kral, 2013 * ''Ceratophyus martinezi'' Lauffer, 1909 * ''Ceratophyus mesasiaticus'' Medvedev & Nikolajev, 1974 * ''Ceratophyus polyceros'' (Pallas, 1771) * ''Ceratophyus rossii'' (Jekel, 1865) * ''Ceratophyus schaffrathi'' Hillert & Kral, 2013 * ''Ceratophyus sinicus ''Ceratophyus'' is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are about 13 described species in ''Ceratophyus''. Species These 13 species belong to the genus ''Ceratophyus'': * ''Ceratophyus allo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geotrupes Egeriei
''Geotrupes egeriei'', or Eger's earth boring beetle, is a species of earth-boring scarab beetle in the family Geotrupidae Geotrupidae (from Greek γῆ ''(gē)'', earth, and τρῡπητής ''(trȳpētēs)'', borer) is a family of beetles in the order Coleoptera. They are commonly called earth-boring dung beetles or dor beetles. Most excavate burrows in which t .... References Further reading * Geotrupidae Articles created by Qbugbot Beetles described in 1824 {{geotrupidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geotrupes
''Geotrupes'' (from Greek 'earth-boring') is a genus of earth-boring scarab beetles in the family Geotrupidae. There are at least 30 described species in ''Geotrupes''. Species These 31 species belong to the genus ''Geotrupes'': * '' Geotrupes atavus'' Oustalet, 1874 * '' Geotrupes baicalicus'' Reitter, 1892 * '' Geotrupes balyi'' Jekel, 1865 (Baly's earth boring beetle) * '' Geotrupes blackburnii'' (Fabricius, 1781) (Blackburn's earth boring beetle) * '' Geotrupes cavicollis'' Bates, 1887 * '' Geotrupes corinthius'' Fairmaire, 1886 * '' Geotrupes douei'' Gory, 1841 * '' Geotrupes egeriei'' Germar, 1824 (Eger's earth boring beetle) * '' Geotrupes folwarcznyi'' Cervenka, 2005 * '' Geotrupes genestieri'' Boucomont, 1904 * '' Geotrupes germari'' Heer, 1862 * '' Geotrupes hornii'' Blanchard, 1888 (Horn's earth boring beetle) * '' Geotrupes ibericus'' Baraud, 1958 * '' Geotrupes jakowlewi'' (Semenov, 1891) * '' Geotrupes kashmirensis'' Sharp, 1878 * '' Geotrupes koltzei'' Reitter, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stridulation
Stridulation is the act of producing sound by rubbing together certain body parts. This behavior is mostly associated with insects, but other animals are known to do this as well, such as a number of species of fish, snakes and spiders. The mechanism is typically that of one structure with a well-defined lip, ridge, or nodules (the "scraper" or ''plectrum'') being moved across a finely-ridged surface (the "file" or ''stridulitrum''—sometimes called the ''pars stridens'') or vice versa, and vibrating as it does so, like the dragging of a phonograph needle across a vinyl record. Sometimes it is the structure bearing the file which resonates to produce the sound, but in other cases it is the structure bearing the scraper, with both variants possible in related groups. Common onomatopoeic words for the sounds produced by stridulation include ''chirp'' and ''chirrup''. Arthropod stridulation Insects and other arthropods stridulate by rubbing together two parts of the body. These ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolboceratidae
Bolboceratidae is a family of beetle. It was historically treated as a subfamily of the earth-boring dung beetles, or "dor beetles" (family Geotrupidae), but has been considered a separate family by many authors since 1995. Some recent classifications have persisted in treating bolboceratids as a subfamily (e.g.Smith, A.B.T. (2006) A Review of the Family-group Names for the Superfamily Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) with Corrections to Nomenclature and a Current Classification. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 60:144-204.) but these classifications are contradicted by recent phylogenetic studies of relationships indicating that bolboceratids are not closely related to geotrupids (e.g., that bolboceratids are more closely related to Pleocomidae and PassalidaeMCKENNA, D. D., WILD, A. L., KANDA, K., BELLAMY, C. L., BEUTEL, R. G., CATERINO, M. S., FARNUM, C. W., HAWKS, D. C., IVIE, M. A., JAMESON, M. L., LESCHEN, R. A. B., MARVALDI, A. E., MCHUGH, J. V., NEWTON, A. F., ROBERTSON, J. A., THAYE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jekel
Henri Jekel (September 21, 1816, Paris - August 4, 1891) was a French coleopterist. Life and work Jekel ran a natural history items and books store in Paris. In 1849 he wrote a revision of the work ''Genera et species Curculionidarum'' by the Swedish entomologist Carl Johan Schönherr. From 1854 to 1859 he self-published the three-volume work ''Fabricia entomologica''. In the following years he wrote a large number of specialist articles for various journals of entomological societies, including the first description of the giraffe neck beetle from Madagascar in 1860. In total, Jekel described over 550 taxa, 367 of which are still valid today. These include genera and species from the beetle families Anthribidae, Attelabidae, Curculionidae and Geotrupidae. Genera described are Lasiorhynchites, Conothorax, Chelotrupes, Balanobius, Donus, Eudmetus, Elytroxys and Entomops. In 1855 he published the first part of ''Insecta Saundersiana or characters of undescribed insects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egg (biology)
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches. Most arthropods such as insects, vertebrates (excluding live-bearing mammals), and mollusks lay eggs, although some, such as scorpions, do not. Reptile eggs, bird eggs, and monotreme eggs are laid out of water and are surrounded by a protective shell, either flexible or inflexible. Eggs laid on land or in nests are usually kept within a warm and favorable temperature range while the embryo grows. When the embryo is adequately developed it hatches, i.e., breaks out of the egg's shell. Some embryos have a temporary egg tooth they use to crack, pip, or break the eggshell or covering. The largest recorded egg is from a whale shark and was in size. Whale shark eggs typically hatch within the mother. At and up to , the ost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek ( el, label= Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy ( Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
