New Country Records of Scarab Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) in Swaziland and Zambia
Author
Gillett, Conrad P. D. T.
Author
Barr, Iain
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2018
2018-09-20
72
3
433
438
http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-72.3.433
journal article
10.1649/0010-065X-72.3.433
1938-4394
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Catharsius tricornutus
(De Geer, 1778)
(
Fig. 3B
)
Previously recorded from
Angola
,
DRC
,
Kenya
,
Mozambique
,
Namibia
,
South Africa
,
Tanzania
,
Zambia
, and
Zimbabwe
(
Ferreira 1972
).
New country record
for
Swaziland
: Four specimens,
Malolotja Nature Reserve
,
14–15 April 2015
and
1 April 2016
. One specimen,
Mantenga Nature Reserve
,
2 April 2015
. Crepuscular/nocturnal.
At Malolotja Nature Reserve
, specimens were found in burrows under zebra dung,
and in zebra dung-baited pitfall traps
operated overnight.
At Mantenga Nature Reserve
, a specimen was dug out of a burrow underneath cattle dung, and elytra and other fragments were found
.
Genus
Heliocopris
Hope, 1837