Alissonotum piceum
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Alissonotum piceum, is a species of dung beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Réunion island and Mauritius.[1][2]
Biology[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "Datasheet: Alissonotum piceum". CABI. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
- ^ "Studies on Rhinoceros Beetles (Coleoptera— Scarabaeidae—Dynastinae) from Madhya Pradesh, central India" (PDF). Colemania, Number 34, pp. 1-9. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
- ^ "Alissonotum piceum besucheti Endrödi, 1977: a new introduction in Reunion Island (Coleoptera, Dynastidae)". www.cabdirect.org. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
- ^ "Biology and ecology of sugarcane white grubs in Mauritius" (PDF). XXI Congress of ISSCT …, 1995. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
- ^ "Alissonotum piceum besucheti subsp. n. (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae, Dynastinae) [1977]". Revue suisse de zoologie, 1977. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
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