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
5383463
Proagoderus lanista
(Castelnau, 1840)
(
Fig. 3C
)
Previously recorded from
Botswana
,
Kenya
,
Mozambique
, and
South Africa
(
Ferreira 1972
;
Palestrini 1992
).
New country record
for
Swaziland
:
Two
specimens,
Malolotja Nature Reserve
,
14 April 2015
, and
31 March 2016
. Diurnal. The specimens were found during the late afternoon, active under fresh zebra dung in montane grassland
.
Genus
Diastellopalpus
van Lansberge 1886