Dung beetles from two sustainable-use protected forests in the Brazilian Amazon
Author
Carvalho, Edrielly C.
Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociencias - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil & Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Entomologia. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia - INPA, Manaus, Brazil
edrielly.carol@gmail.com
Author
Maldaner, Maria Eduarda
Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Ecologia e Conservacao da Biodiversidade (PPGECB), Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil
Author
Costa-Silva, Vinicius
Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociencias - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil & Laboratory of Integrative Entomology, Department of Animal Biology, Institute of Biology, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Author
Sehn, Heivanice
Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Zoologia. Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil
Author
Franquini, Carol
Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociencias - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil
Author
Campos, Vinicius O.
Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociencias - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil
Author
Seba, Vinicius P.
Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociencias - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil
Author
Maia, Lais F.
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Queens Road, BS 8 1 QU, UK, Bristol, United Kingdom
Author
Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Z.
Departamento de Biologia e Zoologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso. Laboratorio de Scarabaeoidologia. Instituto de Biociencias - UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil
Author
Franca, Filipe Machado
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Queens Road, BS 8 1 QU, UK, Bristol, United Kingdom & Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Ecologia (PPGECO), Universidade Federal do Para, Belem, PA, 66075 - 110, Brazil, Belem, Brazil
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Biodiversity Data Journal
2023
2023-03-16
11
96101
96101
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e96101
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e96101
1314-2828-11-e96101
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Ateuchus Weber, 1801
Notes
With around 100 species described, this genus needs urgent revision. The last revision of Brazilian
Ateuchus
species was done by
Harold (1868)
, while
Balthasar (1939)
represents the last identification key for the genus. Most species occur in North America, Costa Rica and Mexico (
Kohlmann 1984
,
Kohlmann 1997
,
Genier
2000
,
Kohlmann and Vaz-de-Mello 2018
) and appear to be copro-necrophagous, including species from open areas and species that live associated with ant nests (
Vaz-de-Mello et al. 1998
). Nine species were identified in our study:
Ateuchus globulus
(Balthasar, 1938),
A. cf. pygidialis
,
A. cf. murrayi
,
A. semicupreus
(Harold, 1868),
A. substriatus
(Harold, 1868) and
Ateuchus
sp. 1,
Ateuchus
sp. 2,
Ateuchus
sp. 3 and
Ateuchus
sp. 4 (Fig.
2
A-G).