- Title
- The distribution, habitat, diet and forensic significance of the scarab Frankenbergerius forcipatus (Harold, 1881) (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae)
- Creator
- Midgley, John M, Collett, Isabel J, Villet, Martin H
- 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, 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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Villet, Martin Herrer (Prof)
RU Department of Zoology and Entomology
SDG 15. Life On Land
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