Copris

Copris
	Copris fricator
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Scarabaeinae
Tribe:	Coprini
Genus:	Copris; Geoffroy, 1762
Synonyms
	Paracopris Balthasar, 1939

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]

Species

Gallery

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

References

1 2 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.

External links

Media related to Copris at Wikimedia Commons
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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[Scholtz2009-1] 1 2 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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