A molecular phylogeny of the African Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

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Adrian L. V. Davis, Clarke H. Scholtz, Christian M. Deschodt, Werner P. Strümpher (2016)
Edaphic and climatic history has driven current dung beetle species pool and assemblage structure across a transition zone in central South Africa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 119: 329.

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Sandra M. Ospina-Garcés, Federico Escobar, Martha L. Baena, Adrian L. V. Davis, Clarke H. Scholtz (2018)
Do dung beetles show interrelated evolutionary trends in wing morphology, flight biomechanics and habitat preference?. Evolutionary Ecology 32: 663.

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Sergei Tarasov, Dimitar Dimitrov (2016)
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BUI Van Bac, Kenneth DUMACK, Michael BONKOWSKI (2018)
Two new species and one new record for the genus Copris (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Vietnam with a key to Vietnamese species. European Journal of Entomology 115: 167.

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Werner P. Strümpher, Clarke H. Scholtz, Thomas Schlüter (2023)
An Eocene fossil scarab beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) from Tanzania. South African Journal of Science 119: .

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Shibao Guo, Xingyu Lin, Nan Song, Pankaj Bhardwaj (2022)
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Angela Roggero, Philippe Moretto, Enrico Barbero, Claudia Palestrini (2019)
The Phylogenetic Relationships of Tiaronthophagus n.gen. (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Onthophagini) Evaluated by Phenotypic Characters. Insects 10: 64.

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VICTOR MOCTEZUMA, ALEJANDRO ESPINOSA DE LOS MONTEROS, GONZALO HALFFTER (2024)
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Changseob Lim, Ji Hyoun Kang, Badamdorj Bayartogtokh, Yeon Jae Bae (2024)
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Walking on ashes: insect trace fossils from Laetoli indicate poor grass cover associated with early hominin environments. Palaeontology 61: 597.

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Jun Seong Jeong, Min Jee Kim, Iksoo Kim (2020)
The mitochondrial genome of the dung beetle, Copris tripartitus, with mitogenomic comparisons within Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera). International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 144: 874.

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Sarophorus diabolussp. n. andSarophorus frolovisp. n. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from South Africa. African Entomology 25: 264.

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Gimo M. Daniel, Catherine L. Sole, Adrian L.V. Davis, Werner P. Strümpher, Clarke H. Scholtz (2020)
Systematics of the dung beetle tribe Sisyphini Mulsant (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) inferred from a molecular phylogeny and biogeography of southern African species. Systematic Entomology 45: 73.

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Adrian L. V. Davis, Clarke H. Scholtz, Catherine L. Sole (2016)
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Catarine Aragone de Albuquerque Mello, Igor Costa Amorim, Alexandre Freitas da Silva, Giuliene Rocha de Medeiros, Gabriel Luz Wallau, Rita de Cássia de Moura (2021)
Mitogenome of Coprophanaeus ensifer and phylogenetic analysis of the Scarabaeidae family (Coleoptera). Genetics and Molecular Biology 44: .

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Adrian L. V. Davis, Clarke H. Scholtz (2020)
Dung beetle conservation biogeography in southern Africa: current challenges and potential effects of climatic change. Biodiversity and Conservation 29: 667.

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Angela Roggero, Enrico Barbero, Claudia Palestrini (2017)
Revised classification and phylogeny of an Afrotropical species group based on molecular and morphological data, with the description of a new genus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Onthophagini). Organisms Diversity & Evolution 17: 181.

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Gerd Gäde, Petr Šimek, Heather G. Marco (2016)
Novel members of the adipokinetic hormone family in beetles of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Amino Acids 48: 2785.

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Eduardo Bellosi, Jorge F. Genise, Alejandro Zucol, Mariano Bond, Alejandro Kramarz, M. Victoria Sánchez, J. Marcelo Krause (2021)
Diverse evidence for grasslands since the Eocene in Patagonia. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 108: 103357.

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