There are 7000 species of Scarabaeinae beetles that can be divided into four functional guilds. The aim this work was to describe the community, its guilds and fluctuation throughout year at two sites in Reserva Natural Vale, municipality Linhares, Espírito Santo state, Brazil. samples were carried out monthly, from June 2012 January 2013, with pitfall traps exposed for 48 hours human faeces ro...

Coprophanaeus terrali, a species based on a single male from Sinop, Brazil, had its validity questioned recently when it was suggested that its tetratuberculate cephalic carina could be just an individual variation of C. dardanus (MacLeay, 1819). In this work, based on three additional males and two females collected near the type locality, we present new evidence supporting the validity of thi...

Species included in the genus Chalcocopris Burmeister, 1846 are reviewed, including the description of a new species (Chalcocopris inexpectatus sp. nov.) from Central Brazil, and the designation of a neotype for Copris hesperus Olivier, 1789. Pictures, diagnostic characters and an identification key are provided.

Information about habitat preferences, activity and sexual behavior of Sulcophanaeus velutinus (Murray 1826), a common species Neotropical mountains are presented.

Many studies have evaluated the effect of forest fragmentation on dung beetle assemblage structure. However, few have analyzed how forest fragmentation affects the processes carried out by these insects in tropical forests where their food sources consist mainly of dung produced by native herbivore mammals. With the conversion of forests to pastures, cattle dung has become an exotic alternative...