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Phanaeus Dionysius
''Phanaeus dionysius'' is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in region of San Pablo Etla of Oaxaca, Mexico. Etymology The specific name ''dionysius'' is named after Dionysius II of Syracuse, main character of moral anecdote of the “Sword of Damocles”. Description Length of male is 16.5 mm. Body dull shiny black with a faint blue luster. Pronotum with large, flat triangular disk. Slender, long horn strongly curved. Pygidium black. Length of female is 16.3 mm. Body dull shiny black. References dionysius The name Dionysius (; el, Διονύσιος ''Dionysios'', "of Dionysus"; la, Dionysius) was common in classical and post-classical times. Etymologically it is a nominalized adjective formed with a -ios suffix from the stem Dionys- of the name ... Beetles described in 2018 {{scarabaeidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dung Beetle
Dung beetles are beetles that feed on feces. Some species of dung beetles can bury dung 250 times their own mass in one night. Many dung beetles, known as ''rollers'', roll dung into round balls, which are used as a food source or breeding chambers. Others, known as ''tunnelers'', bury the dung wherever they find it. A third group, the ''dwellers'', neither roll nor burrow: they simply live in dung. They are often attracted by the feces collected by burrowing owls. There are dung beetle species of various colors and sizes, and some functional traits such as body mass (or biomass) and leg length can have high levels of variability. All the species belong to the superfamily Scarabaeoidea, most of them to the subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae of the family Scarabaeidae (scarab beetles). As most species of Scarabaeinae feed exclusively on feces, that subfamily is often dubbed ''true dung beetles''. There are dung-feeding beetles which belong to other families, such as the Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarabaeidae
The family Scarabaeidae, as currently defined, consists of over 30,000 species of beetles worldwide; they are often called scarabs or scarab beetles. The classification of this family has undergone significant change in recent years. Several subfamilies have been elevated to family rank (e.g., Bolboceratidae, Geotrupidae, Glaresidae, Glaphyridae, Hybosoridae, Ochodaeidae, and Pleocomidae), and some reduced to lower ranks. The subfamilies listed in this article are in accordance with those in Bouchard (2011). Description Scarabs are stout-bodied beetles, many with bright metallic colours, measuring between . They have distinctive, clubbed antenna (biology), antennae composed of plates called lamella (zoology), lamellae that can be compressed into a ball or fanned out like leaves to sense odours. Many species are fossorial, with legs adapted for digging. In some groups males (and sometimes females) have prominent horns on the head and/or pronotum to fight over mates or re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phanaeus (beetle)
''Phanaeus'' is a genus of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Species * ''Phanaeus achilles'' * ''Phanaeus adonis'' * ''Phanaeus alvarengai'' * '' Phanaeus amethystinus'' * ''Phanaeus amithaon'' * ''Phanaeus beltianus'' * ''Phanaeus bispinus'' * '' Phanaeus blackalleri'' * ''Phanaeus bordoni'' * ''Phanaeus cambeforti'' * ''Phanaeus chalcomelas'' * ''Phanaeus changdiazi'' * ''Phanaeus damocles'' * '' Phanaeus daphnis'' * ''Phanaeus dejeani'' * ''Phanaeus demon'' * ''Phanaeus difformis'' * '' Phanaeus dionysius'' * '' Phanaeus dzidoi'' * '' Phanaeus endymion'' * '' Phanaeus eximius'' * '' Phanaeus flohri'' * '' Phanaeus furiosus'' * '' Phanaeus genieri'' * '' Phanaeus halffterorum'' * '' Phanaeus haroldi'' * '' Phanaeus hermes'' * ''Phanaeus howdeni'' * ''Phanaeus igneus'' * ''Phanaeus kirbyi'' * ''Phanaeus labreae'' * '' Phanaeus lecourti'' * ''Phanaeus lunaris'' * '' Phanaeus malyi'' * ''Phanaeus martinezorum'' * ''Phanaeus melampus'' * ''Phanaeus me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
