Aphodius arenarius, Olivier, 1789

Alekseev, Vitalii I., 2018, Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) Of The Kaliningrad Region (Russia): The Commented Actual Checklist, Assessment Of Rarity And Notes To Regional Protection, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 18 (2), pp. 111-152 : 130

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10979877
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11473171
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F88A05-FFAC-C516-FDCB-FE76FC0BFCA4
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Aphodius arenarius
status

Treatment

(36). A. arenarius Olivier, 1789

[= A. putridus (Geoffroy, 1785) ]

Lentz 1879; Bercio & Folwaczny 1979.

Kaliningrad Region: Gur. (Königsberg), Zel.

(Loppöhnen).

Comments: The species prefer to feed on dry dung of different animals (Verdú and Galante 2000), it is widespread in the Baltic region and Fennoscandia ( Silfverberg 2010), known in Lithuania ( Tamutis et al. 2011), Belarus (Alexandovitch & Pisanenko 1991) and northern Poland ( Bunalski & Szwałko 1990).