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Proctophanes sculptus
Proctophanes sculptus is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae. It is found in Australia (Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland, Victoria) and New Zealand.
From the article Proctophanes sculptus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults reach a length of about 5–6.2 mm (0.20–0.24 in). They have a robust, shiny, piceous black body.
In human culture
Specimens have been collected in cattle and horse dung and in marsupial droppings.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Life history”
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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 395657.