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Species Acrossus rufipes

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Aphodius rufipes (Linnaeus) - Acrossus rufipes Aphodius rufipes - Acrossus rufipes Scarab - Acrossus rufipes Pennsylvania Beetle for ID - Acrossus rufipes Dung Beetle at UV - Acrossus rufipes Dung Beetle at UV - Acrossus rufipes Dung Beetle at UV - Acrossus rufipes Acrossus rufipes

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 Acrossus
Species rufipes (Acrossus rufipes)

Other Common Names

Night-flying Dung Beetle

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

≡Aphodius rufipes

Explanation of Names

Acrossus rufipes (Linnaeus 1758)

Size

11‒13 mm(1)

Identification

a very large, uniformly dark, rather flat aphodiine with broad, nearly semicircular head and somewhat lighter legs

Range

native to, and widespread across the Palaearctic, adventive in NA (QC‒ON to NC/TN along the Appalachians)(1)

Remarks

earliest NA record: MD before 1887(1)
comes to lights; very common in most of Europe

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.
Contributed by v belov on 27 November, 2013 - 4:39pm
Additional contributions by Phillip Harpootlian, Mike Quinn
Last updated 22 December, 2024 - 8:14pm

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