Melanocanthon bispinatus in Dorchester Co., Maryland (9/22/2017). (c) Mark Etheridge, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Melanocanthon bispinatus in Dorchester Co., Maryland (9/22/2017). (c) Mark Etheridge, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
Melanocanthon bispinatus in Dorchester Co., Maryland (8/19/2021). (c) Mark Etheridge, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
Melanocanthon bispinatus in Worcester Co., Maryland (6/3/2023). (c) aaronr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
Melanocanthon bispinatus in Worcester Co., Maryland (6/3/2023). (c) aaronr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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| Melanocanthon bispinatus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Melanocanthon |
| Species: | M. bispinatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Melanocanthon bispinatus (Robinson, 1941)
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Melanocanthon bispinatus, the tumble bug, is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae.[1][2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Melanocanthon bispinatus Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ "Melanocanthon bispinatus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ Moctezuma V, Sánchez-Huerta JL, Halffter G (2017). "Two new species of the Phanaeus endymion species group (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae)". ZooKeys 702: 113-135.
Further reading
[edit]- Arnett, R.H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
- Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
- Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.
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