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Aphodius rufipes (night-flying dung beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

Taxonomy
Scarabaeus rufipes was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant.

It was recombined as Aphodius rufipes by Lomnicki (1894), Coope et al. (1961), Gersdorf (1971).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Scarabaeus rufipes Linnaeus p. 353
1761Scarabaeus rufipes Linnaeus p. 139
1767Scarabaeus rufipes Linnaeus p. 559
1774Scarabaeus rufipes De Geer p. 263
1775Scarabaeus rufipes Fabricius p. 19
1776Scarabaeus rufipes Müller p. 55
1777Scarabaeus rufipes Goeze p. 52
1894Aphodius rufipes Lomnicki p. 81 figs. Pl 7, fig 63
1961Aphodius rufipes Coope et al.
1971Aphodius rufipes Gersdorf p. 639 figs. Pl 61, fig 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
RankNameAuthor
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyScarabaeidae()
subfamilyAphodiinae()
tribeAphodiini
subtribeAphodiina
genusAphodius
speciesrufipes()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Aphodius rufipes Linnaeus 1758 [night-flying dung beetle]
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Piacenzian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.58Germany (Niedersachsen) Aphodius rufipes (109196)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117United Kingdom (Worcestershire) Aphodius rufipes (163070)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Ukraine Aphodius rufipes (153476)