Field observations on the biology of Copris lunaris (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

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Field data on the bionomy and ethology of adult Copris lunaris (Linnacus, 1758) from Slovakia are presented and discussed. The following observations are described: records of individuals feeding on human faces, mating and mating behavior, and flight activity. Evening flight activity and initial phase of mating behavior on the ground after arrival at fresh droppings was observed in April at a temperature of 9°C. A hypothesis is formulated, that pairs are formed at this time and not only after the formation of the feeding burrow, at least in a part of the population. In one case, one female was found in a feeding burrow together with two males. This indicates the possibility of the existence of oligoandry or sexual promiscuity of beetles in the pre-breeding period. A female, a male, a brood ball with an egg and a dry splitters of dung "cake" were found in a nest at the end of June. … celý popis

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Jan Vitner

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Acta Societatis zoologicae Bohemicae. -- ISSN 1211-376X. -- Roč. 64, č. 2 (2000), s. 209-215

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biologie

biology

etologie

brouci

vrubounovití

ethology

beetles

Scarabaeidae

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Europe, Central

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