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Heteronychus arator (African black beetle)

Synonyms: Scarabaeus arator (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Heteronychus arator (hetero+onychus = 'variable claw', arator = 'ploughman') is a species of beetle in the subfamily Dynastinae (the rhinoceros beetles). It is commonly called African black beetle or black lawn beetle. It is native to Africa and it is an introduced species in Australia and on the North Island of New Zealand.
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Infraspecies

Heteronychus arator arator
Heteronychus arator borealis
Heteronychus arator centralis
Heteronychus arator clypealis
Heteronychus arator occidentalis
Heteronychus arator rugifrons

Prey / Diet

Saccharum officinarum (sugarcane)[1]
Solanum aviculare (Kangaroo Apple)[2]

Predators

Aquila audax (Wedge-tailed Eagle)[3]
Falco amurensis (Amur Falcon)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Heterorhabditis zealandica[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 3Olsen, J., Judge, D., Fuentes, E., Rose, AB and Debus, S. (2010). Diets of Wedge-tailed Eagles (Aquila audax) and Little Eagles (Hieraaetus morphnoides) breeding near Canberra, Australia Journal of Raptor Research 44: 50–61
♦ 4Alexander, J., & Symes, C. T. (2016). Temporal and Spatial Dietary Variation of Amur Falcons (Falco amurensis) in their South African Nonbreeding Range. Journal of Raptor Research, 50(3), 276-288.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0