Aphodius (Phalacronothus) biguttatus Germar 1824
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 biguttatus

description: Aphodius (Phalacronothus) biguttatus Germar, 1824
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 3; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 4E011CDD-D0D7-577F-8A1F-87E6B16A6258; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius biguttatus; 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: 8; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 0EE7F74C-1385-5364-A563-53EFEE4417D2; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius biguttatus; 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: DF289CBB-5353-5AA3-953D-46294F591006; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius biguttatus; 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: 4; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: 1AF7BD20-CCAA-5E5F-AA29-EFFC848823E6; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius biguttatus; 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
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: A. S. Kurochkin; individualCount: 1; lifeStage: adult; occurrenceID: AB88C9D8-F4AC-5D8A-9BFE-D8C2F07668E5; Taxon: scientificName: Aphodius biguttatus; 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 species is distributed in central, south and eastern Europe, the Transcaucasus, Asia Minor, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. In Russia, it is known from Ulyanovsk and Novosibirsk Provinces, Volgograd, Rostov, Orenburg Provinces and Krasnoyarsk Terr.
Biology
The species occurs in open biotopes, in marmot holes and in the dung of domestic animals.
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