A contribution to the study of the Lower Volga center of scarab beetle diversity in Russia: checklist of the tribe Aphodiini (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) of Dosang environs Author Frolov, Andrey Author Akhmetova, Lilia text Biodiversity Data Journal 2013 1 979 979 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e979 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.1.e979 1314-2828--979 frater Loraspis Aphodius Scarabaeidae Coleoptera Insecta Arthropoda Animalia Aphodius frater Mulsant et Rey, 1870 Materials Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: A. V. Frolov, L. A. Akhmetova ; individualCount: 3 ; Location: country: Russia ; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: Dosang environs, fixed sands ; decimalLatitude: 46.92 ; decimalLongitude: 47.92 ; Event: samplingProtocol: hand collecting from old horse dung ; eventDate: 2007-04-16 ; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN ; collectionCode: Coleoptera Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: A. V. Frolov, L. A. Akhmetova ; individualCount: 15 ; Location: country: Russia ; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: Dosang environs, left bank of Akhtuba River, floodplain ; decimalLatitude: 46.91 ; decimalLongitude: 47.91 ; Event: samplingProtocol: hand collecting from old horse dung ; eventDate: 2008-04-03 ; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN ; collectionCode: Coleoptera Type status: Other material Occurrence: recordedBy: A. V. Frolov, L. A. Akhmetova ; individualCount: 2 ; Location: country: Russia ; stateProvince: Astrakhan'; locality: Dosang environs, fixed sands ; decimalLatitude: 46.92 ; decimalLongitude: 47.92 ; Event: samplingProtocol: hand collecting from old horse dung ; eventDate: 2007-04-13 /15 ; Record Level: collectionID: urn:lsid:biocol.org:col:34969; institutionCode: ZIN ; collectionCode: Coleoptera Ecological interactions Feeds on Adults feed on dry cattle dung. Distribution Western Palearctic region South Europe the south-west to West Siberia in the north-east.