Labarrus pseudolividus

Labarrus pseudolividus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Labarrus
Species:	L. pseudolividus
Binomial name
	Labarrus pseudolividus; (Balthasar, 1941)
Synonyms
	Aphodius (Nialus) pseudolividus Balthasar, 1941; Aphodius cinticulus Hope, 1847;

Labarrus pseudolividus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.

Description

Adults reach a length of about 3.5–5.2 mm (0.14–0.20 in). The clypeus and frons are punctate with small and close punctures and the clypeus has weak emargination.

Distribution

Nearctic: USA (Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawai, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, North Carolina, South Carolina). Neotropical: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil (Alagoas, Bahia, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo, Tocantins), Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico (Aguascalientes, Distrito Federal, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, México, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatán), Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela. Australia: Western Australia, Oceania, New Zealand. Afrotropical: Angola, Botswana, Chad, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Cape, Orange Free State), Senegal, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, the Seychelles.

Life history

They are found in open areas such as grasslands and soy crops or in areas of secondary forest. Specimens have been collected in bovine, human, pig, horse and Tapirus feces.

References

↑ "Global Biodiversity Information Facility". gbif.org. 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.
↑ Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Labarrus pseudolividus 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.

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[:2-2] 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.

[:1-3] Schoolmeesters, P. (2025). "Labarrus pseudolividus 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.