Chiron cylindrus, is a species of true dung beetle widely distributed from Myanmar to Sri Lanka and towards tropical Africa.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Chironinae |
| Genus: | Chiron |
| Species: | C. cylindrus
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| Binomial name | |
| Chiron cylindrus (Fabricius, 1798)
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Description
editAverage length is about 9 to 11 mm. Body elongate and cylindrical, with shiny surface. Dorsum brown to black in color. Head coarse and fine. Clypeus small and broad, with a small transverse median carina. Pronotum fine and sparsely punctate. Scutellum narrow, elongate with a blunt apex. Elytra finely punctate and striated.[3]
Adults are frequently observed in the 1st and 2nd weeks of September where both the larvae as well as adults feed on dung.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Inventory of scarabaeid beetles (Coleoptera) from Madhya Pradesh, India" (PDF). researchgate. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
- ^ Arrow, Gilbert J. (1936-01-01). "XII.—The Beetles belonging to the Lamellicorn Genus Chiron". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. pp. 150–153. doi:10.1080/03745481.1936.10801396. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
- ^ "Fauna of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve" (PDF). Research Gate. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
- ^ "The beetle fauna (Insecta: Coleoptera) of soil in four small areas in Allahabad (UP, India)" (PDF). Department of Zoology and Entomology, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Udaipur. Retrieved 2021-07-09.