Copridaspidus peregrinus (Harold, 1878)

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

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5466461

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scientific name

Copridaspidus peregrinus (Harold, 1878)
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Copridaspidus peregrinus (Harold, 1878) View in CoL

This species was previously only recorded from Angola, the Central African Republic, DRC. and Cameroon ( Ferreira 1972; Davis et al. 2008).

New country record for Zambia: Two specimens, 30 km SSW of Kitwe, 7–19 December 2011. The specimens were collected in cattle dung-baited pitfall traps set in open miombo woodland. This record represents both the most southerly and most easterly record for the species .

Genus Catharsius Hope, 1837

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