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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Dung Beetles (Scarabaeinae) » Onthophagini » Onthophagus » Onthophagus nuchicornis

Species Onthophagus nuchicornis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Scarabaeinae (Dung Beetles)
Tribe Onthophagini
Genus Onthophagus
Species nuchicornis (Onthophagus nuchicornis)
Explanation of Names
Onthophagus nuchicornis (Linnaeus 1758)
Numbers
6.3-8.1 mm(1)
Range
native to the Palaearctic (Europe to Mongolia(2); common), adventive and widespread in NA (most of so. Canada and n. US south to MD-MO-WA)(1)(3) [map]
Remarks
accidentally introduced to North America prior to the 1840s(3)
Internet References
Fact sheet by K.D. Floate(4)
Works Cited
1.Adventive Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in North America: geographic ranges, diagnoses, and new distributional records
Hoebeke E.R., Beucke K. 1997. Entomological News 108: 345–362.
2.Coleoptera Poloniae
3.Additional records of adventive Onthophagus Latreille (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in North America
MacRae T.C., Penn S.R. 2001. The Coleopterists Bulletin 55: 49–50.
4.Floate K. (2012) Dung insects
Contributed by Jim McClarin on 25 August, 2005 - 8:04pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Lynette Elliott, v belov, Harsi S. Parker
Last updated 8 August, 2017 - 4:18pm

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