Oxyomus sylvestris is a species of aphodiine dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae.[1][2][3][4][5] It occurs in Europe, the Near East, and North Africa.[1] It is saprophagous rather than a "true" dung beetle.[6]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Oxyomus |
| Species: | O. sylvestris
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| Oxyomus sylvestris (Scopoli, 1763)
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References
edit- ^ a b "Oxyomus sylvestris (Scopoli, 1763)". Fauna Europaea. Fauna Europaea Secretariat, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
- ^ "Oxyomus sylvestris species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Oxyomus sylvestris". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Oxyomus sylvestris Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ "Oxyomus sylvestris Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ^ Buse, Jörn; Šlachta, Martin; Sladecek, Frantisek X. J.; Carpaneto, Giuseppe M. (2018). "Summary of the morphological and ecological traits of Central European dung beetles". Entomological Science. 21 (3): 315–323. doi:10.1111/ens.12313.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0849309540.
- Gordon, Robert D. & Skelley, Paul E. (2007). "A monograph of the Aphodiini inhabiting the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiini)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 79: 1–580. ISBN 978-1-887988-23-0.
- Hardy, A. (1991). A catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico: Family Scarabaeidae, subfamilies Rutelinae and Dynastinae (PDF). USDA Agriculture Handbook.
- LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.38459. ISBN 0665100558.
- Riley, Edward G.; Wolfe, Charles S. (2003). "An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas" (PDF). Southwestern Entomologist. Supplement.
- White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395910897.
External links
edit- Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
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