Copris
Genus of dung beetles
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Copris is a genus of dung beetles in the tribe Coprini (subfamily Scarabaeinae) of the scarab family.[1] It comprises more than 250 tunnelling species and has an almost worldwide distribution.[1]
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C. arizonensis Schaeffer, 1906
C. elphenor Klug, 1855
C. fidius (Olivier, 1789)
C. hispanus (
Linnaeus, 1764)
C. incertus Say, 1835
C. lunaris (
Linnaeus,
1758)
C. magicus Harold, 1881
C. ochus Motschulsky, 1860
C. punctulatus Wiedemann, 1823
C. sacontala Redtenbacher, 1848
C. siamensis Gillet, 1910
Scholtz, Clarke H.; Davis, Adrian L. V.; Kryger, Ute (2009). Evolutionary biology and conservation of dung beetles. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft Pub. ISBN 978-954-642-517-1.
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Data related to Copris at Wikispecies- Copris in Insectoid.Info has a list of species.
- A recent review of the Copris fidius group - Deschodt, C.M., Davis, A.L. and Scholtz, C.H., 2015. A new synonymy in the fidius group of Copris Müller 1764 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) and a new species from the highland grasslands of South Africa. Zootaxa, 3949(3), p. 431.
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