After almost two decades of stagnation, the taxonomy New World Scarabaeinae dung beetles has since 1988 been going through a period great effervescence. In last 35 years, 81 complete revisions and 69 supplements have produced by 86 authors based in 15 countries, addressing taxonomic status 950 species. This is what we christen as Taxonomic Revolution beetles. We review history products this rev...

Male animals of many species deploy conditional reproductive strategies that contain distinct alternative phenotypes. Such facultatively expressed male tactics are assumed to be due to a single developmental threshold mechanism switching between the expression of two alternative phenotypes. However, we discovered a clade of dung beetles that commonly expresses two threshold mechanisms, resultin...

Meeting rising demand for oil palm whilst minimizing the loss of tropical biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions is a core conservation challenge. One potential solution focusing expansion high-yielding crops on presently low-yielding farmlands alongside protecting nearby forests that can enhance provision functions. A key question how this would impact invertebrate functional diversit...

E. Nichols ([email protected]) and S. Spector, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, Invertebrate Conservation Program, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY 100245193, USA. T. A. Gardner, Biology Dept, Univ. Federal de Lavras, Lavras MG, 37200-000, Brazil, and Dept of Zoology, Univ. of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, UK. C. A. Peres, ...

ABSTRACT Coprophanaeus lancifer is a copro-necrophagous beetle endemic to the Amazon region. Although beetles belonging subfamily Scarabaeinae primarily feed on dung, some have greater diet plasticity that includes carrion, fungi, rotten fruits and invertebrates. The of scavenger C. mainly consists vertebrate carcasses, although it also attracted mammal faeces. Here, we describe first record th...

Despite recognition of its importance, little is known about functional aspects soil macrofauna. Here, we investigated the effect dung beetle body size on macronutrient movement (N, P, K, and C) from elephant into over 112 days in an Afrotropical forest. We report a large overall where more macronutrients are moved time when beetles present compared to control treatment. also amount movement, w...