The distribution, habitat, diet and forensic significance of the scarab Frankenbergerius forcipatus (Harold, 1881) (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae)

Title: The distribution, habitat, diet and forensic significance of the scarab Frankenbergerius forcipatus (Harold, 1881) (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae)
Creator: Midgley, John M
Creator: Collett, Isabel J
Creator: Villet, Martin H
Date Issued: 2012
Date: 2012
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6842
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010992
Description: Records of African beetles feeding on carrion are scattered and incomplete, but important to forensic entomology. Thirty-three specimens of Frankenbergerius forcipatus (Harold, 1881) were found on carrionnear Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa, providing new insight into the distribution (hills and mountains), habitat (fynbos and forest), biology (generalist on decaying material) and forensic significance (wet-decay, late opportunist) of the species.
Format: 6 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Midgley, J. M. and Collett, I. J. and Villet, M.H. (2012) The distribution, habitat, diet and forensic significance of the scarab Frankenbergerius forcipatus (Harold, 1881) (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae). African Invertebrates, 53 (2). pp. 745-749. Available at:http://dx.doi.org/10.5733/afin.053.0214

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RU Department of Zoology and Entomology

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