Scarabaeidae

Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany also has a very rich and varied scarab or dung beetle (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) fauna.

Biological diversity in Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany 2008

Numerous insect groups (Orthoptera, Homoptera, Tenebrionidae, Meloidae, Curculionidae, and Scarabaeidae) are well adapted to the arid desert steppe.

Gobi Lakes Valley desert steppe 2007

Not all beetles will permit this of course, as many flightless species have their elytra fastened down, and some, such as many Scarabaeidae, flip their flying wings out pen-knife-like without noticeably raising the elytra.

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The grubs of the Chafers (Scarabaeidae) are also root-eaters, but they are less active in their habits than the wireworms, and the cuticle of their somewhat stout bodies is, for the most part, pale and flexible; only the head and legs are hard and horny.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

All three operate below ground, under the most unfavourable conditions; and all three have for their victim a larva of one of the Scarabaeidae, which, thanks to the exceptional arrangement of its nerve-centres, lends itself, alone of all larvae, to the Wasp's successful enterprises.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Environment, diet, industry and internal structure are all similar; and yet one of these three larvae, the Cetonia's, reveals a most singular dissimilarity from its fellow-trenchermen: alone among the Scarabaeidae and, more than that, alone in all the immense order of insects, it walks upon its back.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

In the same heap of mould is a swarming colony of Scarabaeidae in the form of larvae, nymphs and adult insects.

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If I could at least identify the Scarabaeidae whose larvae form the prey of the two Scoliae, the problem would be half solved.

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We know that, in the Scarabaeidae, both the larva and the perfect insect are endowed with a concentrated nervous system.

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Buprestes of the Cerceres; and this is why it has fallen to their lot to share among them the larvae of the Scarabaeidae.

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