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Alissonotum piceum

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Alissonotum piceum
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A. piceum
Binomial name
Alissonotum piceum
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Scarabaeus piceus Fabricius, 1775
  • Geotrupes piceus Fabricius, 1801
  • Heteronychus piceum Burmeister, 1847
  • Phileurus detractus Walker, 1859
  • Alissonotum piceum Arrow, 1910

Alissonotum piceum, is a species of dung beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Réunion island and Mauritius.[1][2]

Biology

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Male genitalia consists with elongated phallobase, slender and oval paramere and much outward prolonged apex.[3] Aedeagus is about 3.65 mm in size.

Both adult and grub are found in the furrows and the sugarcane setts.[4] Sometimes they bore through the shoot bases.[5] The species is known to parasitized by Tiphia parallela.[2]

One subspecies is recorded: Alissonotum piceum besucheti, Endrödi, 1977.[6]

References

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  1. ^ Vercambre, Bernard; Pastou, Didier; Aberlenc, Henri-Pierre; Manikom, Ronald (2007). "Alissonotum piceum besucheti Endrödi, 1977, espèce nouvelle pour l'île de la Réunion" (Coleoptera, Dynastidae)". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. pp. 349–356. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  2. ^ a b "Datasheet: Alissonotum piceum". CABI. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
  3. ^ "Studies on Rhinoceros Beetles (Coleoptera— Scarabaeidae—Dynastinae) from Madhya Pradesh, central India" (PDF). Colemania, Number 34, pp. 1-9. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
  4. ^ "Alissonotum piceum besucheti Endrödi, 1977: a new introduction in Reunion Island (Coleoptera, Dynastidae)". www.cabdirect.org. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
  5. ^ "Biology and ecology of sugarcane white grubs in Mauritius" (PDF). XXI Congress of ISSCT …, 1995. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
  6. ^ "Alissonotum piceum besucheti subsp. n. (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae, Dynastinae) [1977]". Revue suisse de zoologie, 1977. Retrieved 2021-07-15.