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Heliocopris
Sign in to saveHeliocopris (large dung beetles) is a genus of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Forty-seven of the fifty-two known species are found in Africa, but a few are found in southern and southeast Asia.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderColeoptera
- FamilyScarabaeidae
Heliocopris dominus Heliocopris japetus Heliocopris colossus Heliocopris bucephalus Род включает следующие виды: Heliocopris alatus (Felsche, 1910) Heliocopris anadematus (Gillet, 1908) Heliocopris andersoni (Bates, 1868) Heliocopris anguliceps (Janssens, 1943) Heliocopris antenor (Olivier, 1789) Heliocopris atropos (Boheman, 1860) Heliocopris beccarii (Harold, 1871) Heliocopris biimpressus (Kolbe, 1893) Heliocopris bucephalus (Fabricius, 1775) Heliocopris colossus (Bates, 1868) Heliocopris corniculatus (Janssens, 1939) Heliocopris coronatus (Felsche, 1901) Heliocopris cuneifer (Lesne, 1906) Heliocopris densissa (Roth, 1851) Heliocopris dianae (Hope, 1842) Heliocopris dilloni (Guérin-Méneville, 1847) Heliocopris dolosus (Janssens, 1939) Heliocopris dominus (Bates, 1868) Heliocopris erycoides (Felsche, 1907) Heliocopris eryx (Fabricius, 1801) Heliocopris faunus (Boheman, 1857) Heliocopris felschei (Kolbe, 1904) Heliocopris fonsecai (Ferreira, 1967) Heliocopris furcithorax (Müller, 1941) Heliocopris gigas (Linnaeus, 1758) Heliocopris hamadryas (Fabricius, 1775) Heliocopris hamifer (Harold, 1878) Heliocopris haroldi (Kolbe, 1893) Heliocopris helleri (Felsche, 1907) Heliocopris hermes
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 93
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Collections
- ZMUC, NHMUK, TTU, UHIM
- Recorded in
- Tanzania, Mauritania, South Africa, CôTe D'Ivoire, Zambia, Kenya
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Encyclopedic overview
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Heliocopris (large dung beetles) is a genus of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Forty-seven of the fifty-two known species are found in Africa, but a few are found in southern and southeast Asia.
Heliocopris includes some of the world's largest dung beetles (their size only rivalled by certain Catharsius and Coprophanaeus), with H. anderson, H. colossus, H. dilloni, H. dominus, H. gigas and H. tyrannus reaching up to about long, although a more typical size for the members of this genus is . They are generally black or dark brown beetles where males tend to have horns on their head or pronotum, which females lack. Some are associated with the dung of elephants, rhinos or hippos, but there are large variations among the species in the genus and dung from other animals, like domestic cattle or monkeys, is also used. The female lays her eggs in a tunnel she digs under the excrement.
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