Aphodius (Euorodalus) coenosus
Creators: name: Akhmetova, Lilia A.
name: Kurochkin, Andrei S.
name: Frolov, Andrey V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Aphodius
Aphodius coenosus

description: Aphodius (Euorodalus) coenosus (Panzer, 1798)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 08E1A3B1-DD29-52C3-BDA8-4CCBC65921C9; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius coenosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Scarabaeidae; genus: Aphodius; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Orenburg; locality: Pervomaiskij Distr., 6.28 km SSW of Polyanskij vill., urochishche Pal’govo, gully bottom, forb-fescue steppe.; decimalLatitude: 51.83; decimalLongitude: 50.87; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak, near burrow entrance; eventDate: 2023-05 - 18; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: F383FB0B-9502-5C14-A07F-5663DCB4F9F1; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius coenosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Scarabaeidae; genus: Aphodius; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Samara; locality: Bol’shechernigovskij distr., 3.9 km SSW of Polyanskij vill., gully bottom, forb-grass steppe.; decimalLatitude: 51.85; decimalLongitude: 50.89; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak, in toilet burrow; eventDate: 2023-04 - 28; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 2; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 409FA26D-688C-5576-A9FA-EC78B9379AF6; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius coenosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Scarabaeidae; genus: Aphodius; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Samara; locality: Bol’shechernigovskij distr., 2.44 km SSW of Polyanskij vill., gully Barsuchikha, forb-fescue-feather grass steppe; decimalLatitude: 51.9; decimalLongitude: 50.93; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak, in toilet burrow; eventDate: 2023-05 - 19; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 3F044CFE-5745-5150-89CF-632D1ABF854C; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius coenosus; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Arthropoda; class: Insecta; order: Coleoptera; family: Scarabaeidae; genus: Aphodius; taxonRank: species; Location: country: Russia; stateProvince: Samara; locality: Bol’shechernigovskij distr., 3.54 km SSW of Polyanskij vill., gully bottom, forb-grass steppe.; decimalLatitude: 51.86; decimalLongitude: 50.88; georeferenceProtocol: GPS; Identification: identifiedBy: L. A. Akhmetova; dateIdentified: 2023; Event: samplingProtocol: From feces of Marmota bobak, near burrow entrance; eventDate: 2023-04 - 28; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN; collectionCode: Coleoptera
Distribution
The distribution range of this species includes almost the whole of Europe (except for the extreme north), the Transcaucasus, Asia Minor, west Kazakhstan and Tajikistan. In Russia, the species is known from Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh, Saratov, Volgograd and Astrakhan Provinces.
Biology
A coprophagous species occurring in the dung of cows, horses and wild ungulates. The species occurs in different biotopes: in eastern Europe, in forests; Isajev (1995) recorded it from steppes; we collected it on sandy soils on the Akhtuba riverside in Dosang environs (Astrakhan Prov.).
description: Published as part of Akhmetova, Lilia A., Kurochkin, Andrei S. & Frolov, Andrey V., 2024, Dung-beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae, Scarabaeinae) feeding on faeces of steppe marmots Marmota bobak (Rodentia, Sciuridae) in Middle Volga territory, pp. e 125090 in Biodiversity Data Journal 12 on page e125090, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e125090