Sceliages
Sign in to saveSceliages, ('σκέλος' = leg), is a genus of dung beetles, and are obligate predators of spirostreptid, spirobolid and julid millipedes, having renounced the coprophagy for which they were named. The genus is near-endemic to Southern Africa, Sceliages augias exceptionally ranging as far north as the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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- Scarabaeidae
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- SAM, MZLU
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- South Africa
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Sceliages, ('σκέλος' = leg), is a genus of dung beetles, and are obligate predators of spirostreptid, spirobolid and julid millipedes, having renounced the coprophagy for which they were named. The genus is near-endemic to Southern Africa, Sceliages augias exceptionally ranging as far north as the Democratic Republic of Congo.
==Taxonomy== Currently seven species are recognised Sceliages adamastor LePeletier & Serville, 1828 - Cape, Orange Free State Sceliages augias Gillet, 1908 - Zambia, Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo Sceliages brittoni Zur Strassen, 1965 - Cape Sceliages difficilis Zur Strassen, 1965 - Zimbabwe, Natal, Transvaal, Gauteng Sceliages gagates Shipp, 1895 - Mozambique, Natal, Eastern Cape, Eswatini Sceliages granulatus Forgie & Grebennikov & Scholtz, 2002 - Northern Cape, Botswana Sceliages hippias Westwood, 1844 - Natal, Transvaal, Mpumalanga
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