Map of the Salisbury University Campus (SUC) with traps indicated. These were set on a weekly basis (with some exceptions) from April–August 2022. The location of hanging fruit traps changed several times throughout the study.

#LiteratureNotice Becnel & Price. #Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) Biodiversity in Two Urban Ecosystems of Maryland, USA doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #scarabs #anthropogenicenvironments

Dorsal habitus of collected male (top) and female (bottom) Bolbocerosoma biplagiatum.

#LiteratureNotice Tribelhorn & Selking. New State Records for Two Geotrupidae (Coleoptera: #Scarabaeoidea) Species from Colorado, USA doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles

New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectConsDiv

Effect of #LandUseChange on #Melolonthidae (Coleoptera: #Scarabaeoidea) beetle communities in the #deforestation arc of the Brazilian Amazon
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70039

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Photo credit: Kleyton Rezende Ferreira

Figures 10, 11. Ochodaeus cornifrons and chromatic individual form “nigricollis”. 10, O. cornifrons Solsky, female holotype, with labels (ZISP) (photos: J.-B. Huchet). 11, O. cornifrons var. nigricollis Semenov, with labels (ZISP) (specimen explicitly designated by Semenov-Tian-Shanskii (Citation1891) as a chromatic variant of O. cornifrons) (photos: J.-B. Huchet).

#LiteratureNotice Huchet & Hillert. Revision of the species complex related to Ochodaeus cornifrons Solsky, 1876, with the description of a new subgenus and two new species (Coleoptera: #Scarabaeoidea: Ochodaeidae) doi.org/10.1080/0037... #Beetle #Beetles #sandlovingscarabbeetles

General habitus of Crassiungula lawrencei gen. et sp. nov., holotype, NIGP206002, under incident light, anterolateral to posterolateral views. Scale bars: 1 mm.

#LiteratureNotice Li et al. Crassiungula gen. nov., an Enigmatic Genus of #Scarabaeoids from Mid-Cretaceous Kachin Amber (Coleoptera: #Scarabaeoidea) doi.org/10.3161/0003... #Beetle #Beetles #scarabbeetle #cretaceous #amber

Illustrated pitfall trap design. For description, see Materials and Methods.

#LiteratureNotice Stone et al. Whose Poos do Northeastern Ohio Dung Beetles ( #Coleoptera: #Scarabaeoidea) Choose? doi.org/10.1649/0010... #Beetle #Beetles #ScarabBeetles #EcosystemFunctioning

New #OpenAccess research in #RESEcolEnt

One dung to attract them all: Faeces attractiveness to #DungBeetles in herbivore multispecies pasture
doi.org/10.1111/een.70013

#Scarabaeoidea
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Photo credits: C. Joly & G. Noss

Examples of Rutelinae visiting flowers. (a) Rutela histrio Sahlberg, 1823 in Inga Mill. (Fabaceae). (b) Rutela laeta (Weber, 1801) in Melastomataceae. (c) Macraspis cincta (Drury, 1782) in Rubus rosifolius Sm. (Rosaceae). (d) Macraspis clavata (Olivier, 1789) in Melastomataceae. (e) Macraspis festiva Burmeister, 1844 in Passiflora L. (Passifloraceae). (f) Macraspis morio Burmeister, 1844 in Neocabreria R.M.King & H.Rob. (Asteraceae). Author: (a) [Photo 29999528, Maristela Zamoner, all rights reserved, uploaded by Maristela Zamoner: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/29999528]. (b) Photo 211412004, (c) Wilson Lombana Riaño: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/211412004]. (c) [Photo 356632189, Vanessa Claudino Bitencourt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Vanessa Claudino Bitencourt: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/356632189]. (d) Paschoal C. Grossi. (e) [Photo 35979418, awo, all rights reserved: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/35979418]. (f) [Photo 237929546, Maristela Zamoner, all rights reserved, uploaded by Maristela Zamoner: https://www.inaturalist.org/photos/237929546]. [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]

#LiteratureNotice da Silva Ferreira et al. Shedding Light on Shining Leaf Chafers: Rutelinae MacLeay, 1819 ( #Coleoptera, #Scarabaeoidea, Scarabaeidae) as a Neglected Group of Pollinators doi.org/10.1111/jen.... #Beetle #Beetles #ScarabBeetles

Figures 5-7. Differences in body size and pronotal morphology of major males: 5, Phanaeus olsoufieffi Balthasar, 1939 (Victor Moctezuma Collection). 6, Phanaeus panamensis Moctezuma & Halffter, 2021 stat. rev. (male holotype, Texas A&M University Insect Collection). 7, Violin plot to illustrate the s​t​a​t​i​s​t​i​c​a​l​l​y​ significant differences

#LiteratureNotice Moctezuma. Taxonomic and nomenclatural issues revisited in the New World Scarabaeinae #DungBeetles ( #Coleoptera: #Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae) doi.org/10.12976/jib... #Beetle #Beetles #ScarabBeetles #Taxonomy

A taste for dung: food preferences of #dungbeetles uncovered - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Scarabaeoidea #feeding #Coleoptera

Met this cute bug on my late night walk.

Good night 💤 Hyvää yötä 😴 God natt 🌖

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#bladhorning
#scarabaeoidea

Graphical abstract of: Chorotypes, zones for the conservation of Scarabaeoidea, and representativity in protected areas of El Salvador

New research in #RESInsectConsDiv addresses: chorotypes, zones for the #conservation of #Scarabaeoidea, and representativity in protected areas of El Salvador🪳 ⛰️

Read the article now🔽
doi.org/10.1111/icad.12807

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Dung Beetles are out. Great footage by Gerard. #dungbeetles #coprophagous #scarab #scarabaeoidea
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Chorotypes, zones for the conservation of Scarabaeoidea, and representativity in protected areas of El Salvador The potential richness of Scarabaeoidea in El Salvador is concentrated in mountainous areas (the coastal mountain, the internal volcanic chain, the northern mountains, and some points in the interio.....

New paper in Insect Conservation and Diversity using @gbif.org mediated data:

Chorotypes, zones for the conservation of #Scarabaeoidea, and representativity in protected areas of #ElSalvador 🇸🇻

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https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12807

Thread by @GromesRoland on Thread Reader App @GromesRoland: Kommen wir zur größten Gruppe der #Insekten - den #Käfer|n (#Coleoptera) mit fast 500.000 beschriebenen Arten, davon ~8.000 in Deutschland. Los geht's mit der Untergruppe Adephaga, hier...

#Käfer ( #Coleoptera) 1
Untergruppe #Adephaga: #Laufkäfer ( #Carabidae), #Schwimmkäfer ( #Dytiscidae), #Polyphaga, #Staphylinoidea, #Scarabaeoidea

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