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Dung Beetle - Chilothorax distinctus

Dung Beetle - Chilothorax distinctus
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
October 18, 2008
Size: 4.5 mm
Aphodius distinctus? Found dead in the bathroom of my home

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used to be
Aphodius distinctus but now are in a different genera in Robert Gordon's revision. I cannot remember the new one at the moment....

 
Chilothorax?
though that's considered a subgenus of Aphodius? Taxonomic revisions are confusing....

 
Yep
thats the genus in Gordon's revision, and the only one in that genus. The only species left in the genus Aphodius is A. fimetarius

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