Aphodius
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Aphodius is a genus
of beetles in the Scarabaeidae
family.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of beetles in the Scarabaeidae
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae as currently defined consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide. The species in this large family are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family is fairly unstable, with numerous competing theories, and new proposals appearing quite...
family.
Species
This genus has numerous species:- Aphodius ater (De Geer, 1774)
- Aphodius bimaculatus (Laxman, 1778)
- Aphodius borealis Gyllenhal, 1827
- Aphodius brevis Erichson, 1848
- Aphodius coenosus (Panzer, 1798)
- Aphodius conspurcatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius contaminatus (Herbst, 1783)
- Aphodius depressus (Kugelann, 1792)
- Aphodius distinctus (Müller, 1776)
- Aphodius equestris (Panzer, 1798)
- Aphodius erraticus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius fimetarius (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius foetens (Fabricius, 1787)
- Aphodius foetidus (Herbst, 1783)
- Aphodius fossor (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius frater Mulsant & Rey, 1872
- Aphodius granarius (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Aphodius haemorrhoidalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius ictericus (Laicharting, 1781)
- Aphodius immundus Creutzer, 1799
- Aphodius lapponum Gyllenhal, 1806
- Aphodius lividus (Olivier, 1789)
- Aphodius lugens Creutzer, 1799
- Aphodius luridus (Fabricius, 1775)
- Aphodius melanostictus Schmidt, 1840
- Aphodius merdarius (Fabricius, 1775)
- Aphodius nemoralis Erichson, 1848
- Aphodius niger (Panzer, 1797)
- Aphodius obliteratus Panzer, 1823
- Aphodius obscurus (Fabricius, 1792)
- Aphodius paykulli Bedel, 1908
- Aphodius piceus Gyllenhal, 1808
- Aphodius pictus Sturm, 1805
- Aphodius plagiatus (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Aphodius porcus (Fabricius, 1792)
- Aphodius prodromus (Brahm, 1790)
- Aphodius punctatosulcatus Sturm, 1805
- Aphodius punctipennis Erichson, 1848
- Aphodius pusillus (Herbst, 1789)
- Aphodius putridus (Geoffroy, 1785)
- Aphodius quadriguttatus (Herbst, 1783)
- Aphodius quadrimaculatus (Linnaeus, 1761)
- Aphodius rufipesAphodius rufipesAphodius rufipes, the night-flying dung beetle, is a species of scarab beetle, first recorded by the zoologist Carl Linnaeus as Acrossus rufipes in his 10th edition of Systema Naturae.-Etymology:...
(Linnaeus, 1758) - Aphodius rufus (Moll, 1782)
- Aphodius scrofa (Fabricius, 1787)
- Aphodius serotinus (Panzer, 1799)
- Aphodius sordidus (Fabricius, 1775)
- Aphodius sphacelatus (Panzer, 1798)
- Aphodius subterraneus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Aphodius tomentosus (Müller, 1776)
- Aphodius uliginosus (Hardy, 1847)
- Aphodius varians Duftschmid, 1805
- Aphodius zenkeri Germar, 1813