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Phoberus Rudebecki
''Phoberus rudebecki'' is a beetle of the family Trogidae Trogidae, sometimes called hide beetles, is a family of beetles with a distinctive warty or bumpy appearance. Found worldwide, the family includes about 300 species contained in four or five genera. Trogids range in length from 2 to 20 mm. Thei .... References Phoberus Beetles described in 1958 {{Trogidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms; new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 and 2.1 million total species. Found in almost every habitat except the sea and the polar regions, they interact with their ecosystems in several ways: beetles often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris, and eat other invertebrates. Some species are serious agricultural pests, such as the Colorado potato beetle, while others such as Coccinellidae (ladybirds or ladybugs) eat aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops. Beetles typically have a particularly hard e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trogidae
Trogidae, sometimes called hide beetles, is a family of beetles with a distinctive warty or bumpy appearance. Found worldwide, the family includes about 300 species contained in four or five genera. Trogids range in length from 2 to 20 mm. Their shape is oblong to oval, with a generally flat abdomen. Their color ranges from brown to gray or black, and they often encrust their bodies with soil. They resemble scarab beetles with heavy limbs and spurs. They are scavengers and are among the last species to visit and feed on carrion. They are most often found on the dry remains of dead animals. Both adults and larvae eat feathers and skin. Some species are found in bird and mammal nests. Details of the life histories of many species are poorly known, since many are specialized to particular types of nests. They are often overlooked by predators and collectors due to their behaviors of covering their bodies with soil and becoming motionless when disturbed. This group may also be con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoberus
''Phoberus'' is a genus of hide beetle in the subfamily Troginae. It was initially a subgenus of ''Trox'' before taxonomists reorganized it into its own genus. The genus is monophyletic In cladistics for a group of organisms, monophyly is the condition of being a clade—that is, a group of taxa composed only of a common ancestor (or more precisely an ancestral population) and all of its lineal descendants. Monophyletic gro ..., with all species evolved from a single common ancestor. Most beetle species in the genus live in Africa. It contains the following species: : Phoberus aculeatus (Harold, 1872) : Phoberus arcuatus (Haaf, 1953) : Phoberus braacki (Scholtz, 1980) : Phoberus brincki (Haaf, 1958) : Phoberus bulirschi (Huchet, 2020) : Phoberus caffer (Harold, 1872) : Phoberus capensis (Scholtz, 1979) : Phoberus consimilis (Haaf, 1953) : Phoberus cyrtus (Haaf, 1953) : Phoberus disjunctus (Strümpher, 2016) : Phoberus elmariae (van der Merwe & Scholtz, 2005) : Phoberus f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
