Blackburneus amazonicus

Blackburneus amazonicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Blackburneus
Species:	B. amazonicus
Binomial name
	Blackburneus amazonicus; Dellacasa, Dellacasa & Gordon, 2011

Blackburneus amazonicus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Brazil (Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima), French Guiana and Suriname.

Description

Adults reach a length of about 3–3.5 mm (0.12–0.14 in). The body is light to dark red. The head has punctures of two sizes, fine punctures distributed everywhere and coarser punctures present on the frons, and sometimes also on the clypeus near the frontoclypeal suture. The clypeus is not sinuate and weakly gibbous. The pronotum has a line of coarse punctures at the posterior margin and angles. The interstriae of disc of the elytra are flat.

Life history

Specimens have been collected on human or pig feces from regions of mature tropical forests, secondary and logging forests.

References

↑ "Global Biodiversity Information Facility". gbif.org. Retrieved September 21, 2026.
↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Blackburneus amazonicus at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2026-01-16). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved September 21, 2026.
1 2 3 Gama, E. R.; Skelley, P. E.; Vaz-de-Mello, F. Z. (2026). "Identification guide to the Aphodiinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of Brazil". European Journal of Taxonomy. 1038 (1): 1–225. Retrieved September 21, 2026. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

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[gbif-1] "Global Biodiversity Information Facility". gbif.org. Retrieved September 21, 2026.

[:1-2] Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Blackburneus amazonicus at Catalogue of Life". World Scarabaeidae Database (version 2025-10-07). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, J. Miller, T. Orrell, & R. Aalbu, Catalogue of Life (2026-01-16). Amsterdam, Netherlands: Catalogue of Life Foundation. Retrieved September 21, 2026.

[:2-3] 1 2 3 Gama, E. R.; Skelley, P. E.; Vaz-de-Mello, F. Z. (2026). "Identification guide to the Aphodiinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of Brazil". European Journal of Taxonomy. 1038 (1): 1–225. Retrieved September 21, 2026. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.