Species of beetle
Onthophagus coenobita |
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Scientific classification |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Scarabaeidae |
Genus: | Onthophagus |
Species: | O. coenobita |
Binomial name |
Onthophagus coenobita |
Onthophagus coenobita is a species of dung beetle in the genus Onthophagus.
It typically feeds on dung, but also carrion and decaying fungi.[1] It mainly feeds on human dung, but also dog, cattle, horse, goat, sheep and pig dung.[2]
References
- ^ "Onthophagus coenobita (Herbst, 1783)". Watford Coleoptera Group. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- ^ Zagler, Viktoria (2009). Dung scent profiles or single scent compounds: What do dung beetles use to detect their food? (PDF) (Thesis). Universität Wien. p. 27. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
Taxon identifiers |
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Onthophagus coenobita | - Wikidata: Q4045835
- Wikispecies: Onthophagus coenobita
- ADW: Onthophagus_coenobita
- BioLib: 243496
- BOLD: 173504
- EoL: 320510
- EUNIS: 235511
- Fauna Europaea: 192373
- Fauna Europaea (new): 63bd06f0-75be-42af-bca0-9ccd35a2f20f
- GBIF: 1091924
- iNaturalist: 131899
- NBN: NBNSYS0000011523
- NCBI: 166347
- Observation.org: 23634
- Open Tree of Life: 279036
- uBio: 1000662
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Scarabaeus coenobita | |
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