Copris
| Copris | |
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| Copris fricator | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Subfamily: | Scarabaeinae |
| Tribe: | Coprini |
| Genus: | Copris Geoffroy, 1762 |
| Synonyms | |
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Paracopris Balthasar, 1939 | |
Copris is a genus of dung beetles in the tribe Coprini (subfamily Scarabaeinae) of the scarab family.[1] It comprises more than 250 tunnelling species and has an almost worldwide distribution.[1]
Species
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C. arizonensis Schaeffer, 1906
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C. elphenor Klug, 1855
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C. fidius (Olivier, 1789)
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C. hispanus (Linnaeus, 1764)
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C. incertus Say, 1835
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C. magicus Harold, 1881
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C. ochus Motschulsky, 1860
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C. punctulatus Wiedemann, 1823
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C. sacontala Redtenbacher, 1848
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C. siamensis Gillet, 1910
References
[edit]- ^ a b Scholtz, Clarke H.; Davis, Adrian L. V.; Kryger, Ute (2009). Evolutionary biology and conservation of dung beetles. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft Pub. ISBN 978-954-642-517-1.
External links
[edit]Media related to Copris at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Copris at Wikispecies
- Copris in Insectoid.Info has a list of species.
- A recent review of the Copris fidius group - Deschodt, C.M., Davis, A.L. and Scholtz, C.H., 2015. A new synonymy in the fidius group of Copris Müller 1764 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) and a new species from the highland grasslands of South Africa. Zootaxa, 3949(3), p. 431.
