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Species Oxyomus sylvestris

Aphodiine Dung Beetle - Oxyomus sylvestris Dung Beetle - Oxyomus sylvestris Platytomus? - Oxyomus sylvestris Platytomus? - Oxyomus sylvestris Dialytes striatulus? but I am on the wrong coast - Oxyomus sylvestris Dialytes striatulus? but I am on the wrong coast - Oxyomus sylvestris Dialytes striatulus? but I am on the wrong coast - Oxyomus sylvestris Oxyomus silvestris? - Oxyomus sylvestris
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
Superfamily Scarabaeoidea
Family Scarabaeidae (Scarab Beetles)
Subfamily Aphodiinae (Aphodiine Dung Beetles)
Tribe Aphodiini
Genus Oxyomus
Species sylvestris (Oxyomus sylvestris)
Explanation of Names
Oxyomus sylvestris (Scopoli 1763)
sylvestris 'related to woods/forest'
Size
2.5‒4.0 mm(1)
Range
native to the Palæarctic, adventive in NA (transcontinental in the north: BC, SK, QC‒NS; ne.US, PNW, and scattered localities in between)(1)
Food
decaying organic matter, incl. excrement and mushrooms(1)
Remarks
comes to lights(2)
earliest NA record: “Middle States” before 1871(1)
Works Cited
1.Synopsis of adventive species of Coleoptera (Insecta) recorded from Canada. Part 4: Scarabaeoidea... [through Cleroidea]
Klimaszewski J, Langor D, Smith A, Hoebeke E, Davies A, Pelletier G, Douglas HB, Webster RP, Bourdon C, Borowiec L, Scudder GGE. 2017. Pensoft Series Faunistica 116: 1‒215.
2.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.