Copris

Copris is a genus of dung beetles in the tribe Coprini (subfamily Scarabaeinae) of the scarab family.[1] It comprises more than 250 tunnelling species and has an almost worldwide distribution.[1]

Copris
Copris fricator
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Tribe:	Coprini
Genus:	Copris Geoffroy, 1762

Species

Some of the diversity in this large genus is shown in these images:

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  C. arizonensis Schaeffer, 1906
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  C. elphenor Klug, 1855
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  C. fidius (Olivier, 1789)
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  C. hispanus (Linnaeus, 1764)
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  C. incertus Say, 1835
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  C. lunaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
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  C. magicus Harold, 1881
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  C. ochus Motschulsky, 1860
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  C. punctulatus Wiedemann, 1823
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  C. sacontala Redtenbacher, 1848
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  C. siamensis Gillet, 1910

References

1. Scholtz, Clarke H.; Davis, Adrian L. V.; Kryger, Ute (2009). Evolutionary biology and conservation of dung beetles. Sofia-Moscow: Pensoft Pub. ISBN 978-954-642-517-1.

External links

• Media related to Copris at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Copris at Wikispecies
• Copris in Insectoid.Info has a list of species.
• A recent review of the Copris fidius group - Deschodt, C.M., Davis, A.L. and Scholtz, C.H., 2015. A new synonymy in the fidius group of Copris Müller 1764 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) and a new species from the highland grasslands of South Africa. Zootaxa, 3949(3), p. 431.