Onthophagus nuchicornis

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Onthophagus nuchicornis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Onthophagus
Species:
O. nuchicornis
Binomial name
Onthophagus nuchicornis
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms [1]
  • Onthophagus rhinoceros Melsheimer, 1845

Onthophagus nuchicornis is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Europe and North America. [1] [2] [3] Though Onthophagus nuchicornis is listed as "Vulnerable" in the United Kingdom, [4] it is a common and abundant species in North America. [5] [6] It has been used as a model organism for ecotoxicological studies of ivermectin, where different biological endpoints (e.g. dung burial) are stimulated at low levels of ivermectin exposure, but impaired at high levels of ivermectin exposure. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Onthophagus nuchicornis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ↑ "Onthophagus nuchicornis". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ↑ Mann, Darren (January 15, 2021). "The status and distribution of the scarab beetles Rhysothorax rufa and Onthophagus nuchicornis on Welsh dunes in 2017" (PDF). Retrieved Jan 15, 2021.
  4. ↑ Floate, K. D.; Kadiri, N. (December 2013). "Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) associated with cattle dung on native grasslands of southern Alberta, Canada". The Canadian Entomologist. 145 (6): 647–654. doi:10.4039/tce.2013.50. ISSN   0008-347X.
  5. ↑ Jones, Matthew S.; Fu, Zhen; Reganold, John P.; Karp, Daniel S.; Besser, Thomas E.; Tylianakis, Jason M.; Snyder, William E. (2019). "Organic farming promotes biotic resistance to foodborne human pathogens". Journal of Applied Ecology. 56 (5): 1117–1127. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13365 . ISSN   1365-2664.
  6. ↑ Manning, Paul; Cutler, G. Christopher (2020-11-23). "Exposure to low concentrations of pesticide stimulates ecological functioning in the dung beetle Onthophagus nuchicornis". PeerJ. 8: e10359. doi: 10.7717/peerj.10359 . ISSN   2167-8359.

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