Catharsius molossus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Hope, F. W. (1837). Lamellicornia. The Coleopterist’s Manual, containing the lamellicorn insects of Linnaeus and Fabricius. Volume 1. Bohn: London :1-121. https://archive.org/download/coleopteristsma01hope/coleopteristsma01hope.pdf
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Scarabaeidae
- genus
- Catharsius
- species
- Catharsius molossus
Name
- Synonyms
- Catharsius davidis Deyrolle, 1878
- Catharsius dubius Paulian, 1936
- Catharsius kangeanus Paulian, 1936
- Catharsius timorensis Lansberge, 1879
- Catharsius timorensis kangeanus Paulian, 1936
- Copris ursus Fabricius, 1801
- Copris urus Fabricius, 1801
- Scarabaeus abbreviatus Herbst, 1789
- Scarabaeus berbiceus Herbst, 1789
- Scarabaeus janus Olivier, 1789
- Scarabaeus molossus Linnaeus, 1758
- Homonyms
- Catharsius molossus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Common names
- Dickkopf in Allemand
- 神农蝶蜡 in Chinois
Bibliographic References
- Davis, A. (1999). Species packing in tropical forests: diel flight activity of rainforest dung-feeding beetles (Aphodiidae, Scarabaeidae, Hybosoridae: Coleoptera) in Borneo. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 47(2), pp.473-486.
- Davis, A., Holloway, J., Huijbregts, H., Krikken, J., Kirk-Spriggs, A. and Sutton, S. (2001). Dung beetles as indicators of change in the forests of northern Borneo. Journal of Applied Ecology, 38(3), pp.593-616.
- Holloway, J., Kirk-Spriggs, A. and Khen, C. (1992). The response of some rain forest insect groups to logging and conversion to plantation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 335(1275), pp.425-436.
- Kikuta, T., Gunsalam, G., Kon, M. and Ochi, T. (1997). Altitudinal Change of Fauna, Diversity and Food Preference of Dung and Carrion Beetles on Mt. Kinabalu, Borneo. Tropics, 7(1/2), pp.123-132.
- Kon, M. (1987). Ecological studies on dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in a tropical rain forest in Sabah, Borneo: a preliminary report, In: Hidaka, T. (eds.), Studies on the Behavior and the Life- cycle Strategies of Arboreal Insects in the Humid tropics. 1985, pp, 18-33, Department of Zoology, Kyoto University. Kyoto.
- Ochi, T. and Kon, M. (1994). Dung Beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) Collected from Sabah, Borneo (I). Elytra, Tokyo, 22(2), pp.281-298.