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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Scarabaeoidea » Scarab Beetles (Scarabaeidae) » Dung Beetles (Scarabaeinae) » Deltochilini » Deltochilum

Genus Deltochilum

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited
D. gibbosum - male - Deltochilum gibbosum - male Deltochilum gibbosum (Fabricius) - Deltochilum gibbosum Blunt-faced Beetle - Deltochilum gibbosum Blunt-faced Beetle - Deltochilum gibbosum Deltochilum scabriusculum Bates - Deltochilum scabriusculum Dung Beetle - Deltochilum gibbosum Dung Beetle - Deltochilum gibbosum Deltochilum gibbosum
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 Deltochilini
Genus Deltochilum
Explanation of Names
Deltochilum Eschscholtz 1822
Numbers
2 spp. in our area, 4 in the Nearctic(1)
Size
20-25 mm
Range
in our area, se US (D. gibbosum NC-FL to KY-TX; D. scabriusculum southmost TX to Costa Rica)
Food
Coprophagous; the neotropical D. valgum preys on millipedes (Larsen et al. 2009)
Life Cycle
The brood ball of this genus is typically pear-shaped, unlike the round ball of Canthon(2)(2); rolling a dung ball (shot in Costa Rica)
Works Cited
1.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.
2.The Scarab Beetles of Florida
Robert Woodruff. 1973. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Contributed by Cotinis on 2 July, 2004 - 4:11pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 15 April, 2017 - 3:54pm

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