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Dung Beetle Masonry

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This chapter deals with the traces produced by extant dung beetles. They had been already described by the ancient Egyptians until Fabre introduced detailed observations in the scientific literature by the end of the nineteenth century. Some of Fabre’s observations are included herein to provide some examples of dung beetle behavior and traces. Those observations are still one of the best reports on dung beetle behavior and neoichnology. Behavior and traces of Aphodiinae, and Geotrupinae are briefly reviewed to focus in the third subfamily of Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae, which are the producers of the most common trace fossils in paleosols. The modern classification of nesting patterns and behavioral characters is summarized in a table and analyzed. Types of dung transport, nests, brood balls, brood masses, cakes, linings, egg chambers and other characters of brood balls, and pupation chambers are reviewed. A blueprint-style plate concentrates all the significant traces produced by dung beetles. Color plates on producers and their traces are provided. Some ecological preferences of dung beetles are highlighted as useful tools for paleoenvironmental interpretations.

“Le pâtissier donee à sa pièce élégante tournure; il l’embellit de rosaces, de torsades, de méridiens en côtes de melon. Le Phanée n’est pas étranger à cette esthétique culinaire. De la caisse de son vol-au-vent, il fail superbe gourde, ornamentée d’un gillochis d’empreintes digitales”(J.H. Fabre 1899, Souvenirs Entomologiques VI, Les Boussiers des Pampas)

“Pendant les mois d’octobre e de novembre, le fond du puits alimentaire est creusé d’une cave sphérique du volume d’une petite orange: c’est un atelier. Et dans cet atelier doit être fabriqué le nid pour lequel le Phanaeus n’admet pas la grossièreté du composant.”(F. Judulien 1899, Quelques notes sur plusieurs Coprophages de Buenos Aires)

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  2. National Ichnological Collection and Division Icnología of the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, President of the First International Congress on Ichnology (Ichnia 2004), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Jorge Fernando Genise (Principal Researcher, Founder)

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Genise, J.F. (2017). Dung Beetle Masonry. In: Ichnoentomology. Topics in Geobiology, vol 37. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28210-7_7

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