Genus Copris

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Nikolaj Pichugin, 03.02.2008 13:34

Dear friends!
I want to open a new topic:
The genus Copris Geoffroy, 1762
Has more than 140 species, in the former USSR 5
I have 4 (3 of our own, 1 from Africa), I would like to see the rest.
1. Copris lunaris L.
is widely distributed in Europe, found in the Mediterranean, and reaches India through Central Asia.
2. Copris hispanus L.
Mediterranean-European type, through Central Asia reaches Iran.
3. Copris ochus Motsch.
It is distributed in the Far East of Russia, North and Central.China, Korea, Japan.

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picture: lunaris.jpg
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picture: copris_hispanus.jpg
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picture: ochus.jpg
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06.01.2011 12:32, vasiliy-feoktistov

Not exactly about Copris.
But I remembered Fabre mentioning an African copra called ?Copris isidis? why is this so (Figure 1)? In fact it is in my opinion a representative of the genus Heliocopris?
I also found a similar handsome man from Africa (but in my opinion, there are no labels, the beetle came with an opportunity in a cigarette pack "for spare parts" and without legs). I recreated it as it turned out.
Heliocopris sp., I think it's H.gigas (Figures 2 and 3)?. I would be grateful for correcting the definition:
P.S. It's definitely Heliocopris gigas Linnaeus, 1758 (as I thought). Thank you scarabaeinae helped me figure it out

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16.01.2011 19:09, Sanangel

More about copra (this is more likely to be attributed to the branch
"Entomological tales"). In my Atlas, the horn of a female Copra of Spanish
with a forked top (photo). I catch copra, I catch them, their horns are all
sharp!, big, not very small-this is normal for males. But when
the number of copra became very large, I see – something is wrong-where are the females?
."at least one! I got into the literature and read: -
" C. hispanus ... the female's horn is short and pointed!!!. C. lunaris....
in the female – it is short, with a notched apex. The horror!! How could I
attach the head of a lunar copra to a Spanish copra in a book? Okay, first
I reviewed all the captured ones again (they were already under the film,
packed,but the pronotum was visible). Everything turned out to be normal –
males and females are almost 50-50.
I made a new picture (I will still republish it!),
and decided to send it with apologies to everyone who has already bought the Atlas. And then
I was wondering what kind of lunar copra I got my head off ...
it turned out that I had two males and one female Spanish copra
(I don't collect more than two or four of the same species) – and this female with this
very forked horn.
Photo 1. Normal females
Photo 2. Here is this unfortunate female. You can also imagine that while picking a hole, she came across a rock and split her horn on it, but PRONOTUM! - hundreds of differences! Maybe it's something else altogether.
Photo 3 I have all males with a sharp horn.
I wanted to know what is the difference between Copris hispanus L.
and Copris hispanus cavolinii (Petagna, 1792) Can someone post a photo
of the pronotum of Copris hispanus in two or three angles?

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картинка: Copris_hispanus_cavolinii__Petagna__1792__22_30mm______.jpg