Heliocopris pirmal (Fabricius, 1798)

Gillett, Conrad P. D. T. & Barr, Iain, 2018, New Country Records of Scarab Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Swaziland and Zambia, The Coleopterists Bulletin 72 (3), pp. 433-438 : 436

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1649/0010-065X-72.3.433

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E32325-FF80-3362-858A-3CB5FBDAFCC4

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scientific name

Heliocopris pirmal (Fabricius, 1798)
status

 

Heliocopris pirmal (Fabricius, 1798) View in CoL

Previously recorded from Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe ( Ferreira 1972; Pokorný et al. 2009).

New country record for Swaziland: One specimen, Simunye, 25 March 2016. A female was found crawling around an outdoor shopping center in company with specimens of Heliocopris andersoni Bates. They apparently had been attracted to the lights there the previous night .

Tribe Onthophagini Burmeister, 1846 Genus Hamonthophagus Roggero, Dierkens, Barbero, and Palestrini, 2017

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Heliocopris

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