| Gymnopleurus miliaris | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Gymnopleurus |
| Species: | G. miliaris |
| Binomial name | |
| Gymnopleurus miliaris (Fabricius, 1775) | |
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Gymnopleurus miliaris is a species of dung beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Bhutan. [1] [2]
This broad, less convex species has an average length of about 7.5 to 11.5 mm. Body bluish black to dark green or coppery with grey setae on dorsum. Head densely granulate. Clypeus consists with four blunt lobes at its front edge. Pronotum densely granulate. Elytra densely granulate. Pygidium granular and setose at the base. [3] [4]
The Cucujidae, "flat bark beetles," are a family of distinctively flat beetles found worldwide under the bark of dead trees. The family has received considerable taxonomic attention in recent years and now consists of 70 species distributed in five genera. It was indicated Cucujus species are scavengers, only feeding on pupae and larvae of other insects and on other subcortical beetles such as their own. Since the Cucujidae prey on larvae of potentially tree damaging beetles that spread fungal diseases, they are considered to be beneficial to the health of living trees.
Cucujus is a genus of beetles in the family Cucujidae, the flat bark beetles. It contains 19 currently recognized species and subspecies.
Gymnopleurus is a genus of Scarabaeidae or dung beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.
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Catharsius pithecius, is a species of dung beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and China.
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Gymnopleurus cyaneus is a species of dung beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan.
Gymnopleurus gemmatus, is a species of dung beetle found in India, and Sri Lanka.
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Gymnopleurus parvus, is a species of dung beetle found in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
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Onitis philemon, is a species of dung beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, China and Taiwan.
Onthophagus centricornis is a species of dung beetle found in India, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. It is a small arboreal dung beetle inhabited in both dry and wet forests.
Onthophagus centricornis, is a species of dung beetle found in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, India, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Thailand.
Onthophagus favrei, is a species of dung beetle found in India, and Sri Lanka.
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Horia fabriciana, is a species of blister beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, Israel and Egypt.
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