''Pachylomera''
[Kirby W (1828) A description of some Coleopterous insects in the collection of the Rev. F.W.Hope. ''Zoological Journal'' 3: 520-525.] is a genus of
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 cha ...
from the family
Scarabaeidae and tribe
Scarabaeini
The ScarabaeiniLatreille PA (1802) ''Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Tome 3.'' F. Dufart, Paris. are a tribe of old-world dung beetle genera, erected by Pierre André Latreille.
Genera
''BioLib' ...
, with records from Africa south of the equator.
Species and Description
''BioLib''
[Biolib.cz]
genus
''Pachylomera'' Kirby, 1828 (retrieved 23 August 2021) lists:
# ''
Pachylomera femoralis''
Kirby, 1828 - type species
# ''
Pachylomera opaca''
Lansberge, 1874
''P. femoralis'' is the largest flying, ball-rolling dung beetle in the world. The front legs are particularly strong, with the flattened leg appendages: it walks with these while rolling balls of
buffalo and
elephant
Elephants are the largest existing land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae an ...
dung.
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Scarabaeidae genera
Beetles of Africa