Oxyomus sylvestris

Oxyomus sylvestris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Oxyomus
Species:	O. sylvestris
Binomial name
Oxyomus sylvestris (Scopoli, 1763)

Oxyomus sylvestris is a species of aphodiine dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} It occurs in Europe, the Near East, and North Africa. ^[1] It is saprophagous rather than a "true" dung beetle. ^[6]

References

1. "Oxyomus sylvestris (Scopoli, 1763)". Fauna Europaea . Fauna Europaea Secretariat, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
2. "Oxyomus sylvestris species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
3. "Oxyomus sylvestris". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 2018-04-06.
4. "Oxyomus sylvestris Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
5. "Oxyomus sylvestris Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
6. Buse, Jörn; Šlachta, Martin; Sladecek, Frantisek X. J.; Carpaneto, Giuseppe M. (2018). "Summary of the morphological and ecological traits of Central European dung beetles". Entomological Science. 21 (3): 315–323. doi:10.1111/ens.12313.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0849309540.
• Gordon, Robert D. & Skelley, Paul E. (2007). "A monograph of the Aphodiini inhabiting the United States and Canada (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiini)". Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute. 79: 1–580. ISBN   978-1-887988-23-0.
• Hardy, A. (1991). A catalog of the Coleoptera of America North of Mexico: Family Scarabaeidae, subfamilies Rutelinae and Dynastinae (PDF). USDA Agriculture Handbook.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 . ISBN   0665100558.
• Riley, Edward G.; Wolfe, Charles S. (2003). "An annotated checklist of the Scarabaeoidea of Texas" (PDF). Southwestern Entomologist. Supplement.
• White, Richard E. (1998) [1983]. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America (Peterson Field Guides) . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN   0395910897.

External links

• Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
• Media related to Oxyomus sylvestris at Wikimedia Commons