Onthophagus nuchicornis

Onthophagus nuchicornis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Onthophagus
Species:
O. nuchicornis
Binomial name
Onthophagus nuchicornis
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Onthophagus rhinoceros Melsheimer, 1845

Onthophagus nuchicornis is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Europe and North America.[1][2][3] Though Onthophagus nuchicornis is listed as "Vulnerable" in the United Kingdom,[4] it is a common and abundant species in North America.[5][6] It has been used as a model organism for ecotoxicological studies of ivermectin, where different biological endpoints (e.g. dung burial) are stimulated at low levels of ivermectin exposure, but impaired at high levels of ivermectin exposure.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Onthophagus nuchicornis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. ^ "Onthophagus nuchicornis". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ^ Mann, Darren (January 15, 2021). "The status and distribution of the scarab beetles Rhysothorax rufa and Onthophagus nuchicornis on Welsh dunes in 2017" (PDF). Retrieved Jan 15, 2021.
  4. ^ Floate, K. D.; Kadiri, N. (December 2013). "Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) associated with cattle dung on native grasslands of southern Alberta, Canada". The Canadian Entomologist. 145 (6): 647–654. doi:10.4039/tce.2013.50. ISSN 0008-347X. S2CID 86358092.
  5. ^ Jones, Matthew S.; Fu, Zhen; Reganold, John P.; Karp, Daniel S.; Besser, Thomas E.; Tylianakis, Jason M.; Snyder, William E. (2019). "Organic farming promotes biotic resistance to foodborne human pathogens". Journal of Applied Ecology. 56 (5): 1117–1127. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13365. ISSN 1365-2664.
  6. ^ Manning, Paul; Cutler, G. Christopher (2020-11-23). "Exposure to low concentrations of pesticide stimulates ecological functioning in the dung beetle Onthophagus nuchicornis". PeerJ. 8: e10359. doi:10.7717/peerj.10359. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 7690291. PMID 33282556.

Further reading

  • Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.


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