FOOD RELOCATION BEHAVIOR AND SYNOPSIS OF THE SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICAN GENUS GLYPHODERUS WESTWOOD (SCARABAEIDAE: SCARABAEINAE: EUCRANIINI)

Authors

Federico C. Ocampo, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

June 2004

Comments

Published in The Coleopterists Bulletin, 58(2):295–305. 2004. Copyright © 2004 by F. Ocampo. Used by permission.

Abstract

The Argentinean endemic Eucraniini genus Glyphoderus Westwood is redescribed, a key to species and a synopsis of the three known species, . centralis Burmeister, G. monticola Burmeister, and G. sterquilinus (Westwood) is presented. The biology and food relocation behavior of the three species are described. A key to genera of the tribe Eucranini is also presented.