After almost two decades of stagnation, the taxonomy of the New World Scarabaeinae dung
beetles has since 1988 been going through a period of great effervescence. In the last 35 …

The subfamily Scarabaeinae has been traditionally divided into tribes on the basis of
morphological similarity between groups of genera or, even, dissimilarity shown by a single …

The Phanaeus endymion species group is defined as a lineage of dung beetles distributed
from Mexico to Ecuador. The current arrangement of the P. endymion species group …

 Abstract More than 4700 nominal family-group names (including names for fossils and
ichnotaxa) are nomenclaturally available in the order Coleoptera. Since each family-group …

The distribution of the iridescent dung beetle Bolbites onitoides can be divided, based on
dorsal colouration, into a blue western-half and a red eastern-half. This has raised the …

Recent declines of insect populations at high rates have resulted in the need to develop a
quick method to determine their diversity and to process massive data for the identification of …

Species relative abundance (SRA) is an essential attribute of biotic communities, which can
provide an accurate description of community structure. However, the sampling method …

Deltochilum Eschscholtz, 1822 is perhaps the most speciose genus of the tribe Deltochilini
sensu Tarasov & Dimitrov (2016)(Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) and has been traditionally …

The Ecuadorian territory is divided into four natural regions: the coastal lowlands, the
Andean highlands, the Amazon basin, and the Galapagos Islands. Each of these regions …

Understanding how selective logging affects biodiversity is crucial to planning cost-effective
conservation strategies in tropical forests, yet there is limited understanding of its impacts on …