| Scarabaeus puncticollis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Scarabaeus |
| Species: | S. puncticollis |
| Binomial name | |
| Scarabaeus puncticollis (Latreille, 1819 | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Scarabaeus puncticollis is a species of beetles belonging to the family Scarabaeidae.
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Scarabaeus puncticollis has a distinctive set of points (hence the Latin species name puncticollis) along the basal margin of the pronotum. The head has a characteristic array of six projections, resembling rays. These projections are similar to four more projections on each of the tibiae of the front legs. All these projections are adaptations for digging and for forming balls of dung. The mid- and hind-legs have normal, well-developed 5-segmented tarsi. These beetles feed exclusively on dung. [3]
This species is present in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Portugal, Spain and North Africa. [4]
Pierre André Latreille was a French zoologist, specialising in arthropods. Having trained as a Roman Catholic priest before the French Revolution, Latreille was imprisoned, and only regained his freedom after recognising a rare beetle species he found in the prison, Necrobia ruficollis.
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician.
Guillaume-Antoine Olivier was a French entomologist and naturalist.
Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean, was a French soldier and entomologist. Dejean described a large number of beetles in a series of catalogues.
Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart was a French entomologist specialising in the study of Diptera. He worked on world species as well as European and described many new species.
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