Delopleurus parvus

Delopleurus parvus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Scarabaeinae
Tribe:	Ateuchini
Genus:	Delopleurus
Species:	D. parvus
Binomial name
Delopleurus parvus (Sharp, 1875)
Synonyms
Coptorhina parvusSharp, 1875 Delopleurus cardoniPaulian, 1934

Delopleurus parvus, is a species of dung beetle found in India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Description

This small subquadrate, highly convex species has an average length of about 5 to 6 mm. ^[4]

The species has found in habitats such as under a puffball fungus. ^[5]

References

1. Frolov, Andrey V. (2015-01-25). "Revision of the genus Delopleurus Boheman (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with description of new species from Africa". Journal of Natural History. pp. 129–154. doi:10.1080/00222933.2014.909072 . Retrieved 2021-07-19.
2. Mittal, I.C.; Jain, Rahul (2015). "A checklist of Indian Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)". Indian Journal of Entomology. p. 383. doi:10.5958/0974-8172.2015.00076.0 . Retrieved 2021-07-19.
3. Sabu, Thomas K.; Nithya, S.; Vinod, K. V. (2011-04-22). "Faunal survey, endemism and possible species loss of Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in the western slopes of the moist South Western Ghats, South India". Zootaxa. p. 29. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2830.1.3 . Retrieved 2021-07-19.
4. "Delopleurus parvus (Sharp, 1875)". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
5. "Report of dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) attracted to unconventional resources, with the description of three new species" (PDF). ENTOMON 41(4) : 265-282 (2016). Retrieved 2021-07-18.