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Dung beetle Geotrupes (Anoplotrupes) stercorosus Scriba

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Lesha, 05.07.2006 19:33

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Taken in a forest, Berlin, June 2006
In the first picture, a beetle crawls on some tree fungus. On the thief - on the fabric.



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picture: z_lesha_035b_s.jpgSome small creatures were found on its abdomen (shown by arrows). They usually sit still, but they can also crawl from place to place. You can't see it in detail.

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05.07.2006 20:28, Bad Den

Dung beetle Geotrupes (Anoplotrupes) stercorosus Scriba. And gamase mites crawl on it.

05.07.2006 21:28, RippeR

By the way, what are the differences between stercorarius and stercorosus? Preferably explicit ones..

06.07.2006 12:48, Bad Den

If explicit - then here:
http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/geostenp.htm
http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/rus/anoplotr.htm

06.07.2006 14:43, Nilson

Of the most obvious ones only the size

06.07.2006 15:55, RippeR

more precisely pliz.

06.07.2006 16:20, Bad Den

2 RippeR
follow the links above quite clearly:
dotted pronotum, sculpture of elytra...
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07.07.2006 0:48, RippeR

Thanks! That's about what I thought smile.gif

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