Species Bradycinetulus ferrugineus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks

Bradycinetulus ferrugineus - male - female

Dung beetle - Bradycinetulus ferrugineus - male

Bradycinetulus - Bradycinetulus ferrugineus - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Polyphaga

Superfamily Scarabaeoidea

Family Geotrupidae (Earth-Boring Scarab Beetles)

Subfamily Bolboceratinae

Genus Bradycinetulus

Species ferrugineus (Bradycinetulus ferrugineus)

Explanation of Names

Bradycinetulus ferrugineus (Palisot de Beauvois, 1809); ferrugineus is Latin for "rusty"

Range

SE Virginia, through Florida and Mississippi

Habitat

Deep sand locales

Season

In SC, most often seen in May-June and again in late August-September - after a good rain

Food

Presumably detritus

Remarks

Purportedly attracted to light, but I can't confirm that*. On the other hand, I've dug up MANY in burrows that are often 2-3 feet deep. Can be locally very abundant.

P.H.

*in June 2021, I collected one at a MV/UV light sheet in southern Georgia, as confirmation of it being attracted to light (Robert Androw)

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 9 June, 2006 - 10:43pm
Additional contributions by Chuck Entz, bandrow
Last updated 22 March, 2022 - 9:24am

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