Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) of the Mpala Research Centre and environs, Laikipia District, Kenya
Author
Gordon, Robert D.
Northern Plains Entomology P. O. Box, 65 Willow City, ND 58384 USA
Author
Bordat, Patrice
Lagasse, F- 82300 Saint-Cirq, France
Author
Dellacasa, Giovanni
C. P. 921, I- 1612 Genova, Italy
Author
Dellacasa, Marco
Centro Interdipartimentale, Museo di Storia Naturalle e del Territorio Università di Pisa, via Roma 79, I- 56011 Calci (Pisa) Italy
text
Insecta Mundi
2008
2008-03-03
2008
28
1
15
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.4532811
1942-1354
4532811
Aganocrossus meticulosus
Paulian
Aganocrossus meticulosus
Paulian, 1942: 49
.
Aphodius
(
Aganocrossus
)
meticulosus
:
Bordat, 1992b: 357
Specimens examined (5)
:
Laikipia
,
MRC
,
1800 m
,
N00
o
17’
-
E36
o
53’
,
1-13.
V
.2003, #1, leg. R.
Gordon
,
Zebra
dung (1);
idem
, leg.
R
Gordon
,
African Buffalo
dung (1)
;
Laikipia
,
MRC
,
1800 m
,
N00
o
17’
-
E36
o
53’
,
1- 31.VIII.2001
, leg.
Kadir Abdi
,
Waterbuck
dung (1)
;
Laikipia
Plateau
,
Mpala Research
Centre
,
N00
o
17'
-
E36
o
53'
E,
1650 m
,
17-20 Sept. 1999
,
S.E. Mille
,
T
.
M.
Kuklenski
&
R
.
R
.
Snelling
(2). (
MRC
) (
NMK
) (
USNM
)
.
Geographical distribution
: Eastern Africa (
Kenya
and
Tanzania
) and
Zaire
.
Dung preference
:
Not
known, specimens were found in buffalo and waterbuck dung.