Phanaeus difformis
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| Phanaeus difformis | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Phanaeus |
| Species: | P. difformis
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| Binomial name | |
| Phanaeus difformis Leconte, 1847
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Phanaeus difformis is a species of true dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae that is native to south-central United States and adjacent far northern Mexico.[1][2][3] It may hybridize with the generally more common P. vindex.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Phanaeus difformis Species Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ↑ "Phanaeus difformis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ↑ Zídek, J.; Edmonds, W.D. (2012). "Taxonomy of Phanaeus revisited: Revised keys to and comments on species of the New World dung beetle genus Phanaeus MacLeay, 1819 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Phanaeini)". Insecta Mundi. 2012 (274): 1–108. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5182095.
Further reading
File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to Phanaeus difformis at Wikimedia Commons
- Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
- Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.