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. 1 2 "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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