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Ataenius imbricatus
Ataenius imbricatus is a species of aphodiine dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in the Caribbean, Central America, North America, and South America.
From the article Ataenius imbricatus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 3.8–4.5 mm (0.15–0.18 in). They have a dull,piceous or reddish piceous body, which is entirely covered by an argillaceous coating and/or with oily dirt.
Range & habitat
Neotropical: Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Brazil (Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico (Chiapas, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Veracruz, Yucatán), Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Saint Croix, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela. Nearctic: Canada (Ontario, Quebec), United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin).
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 214532.