Christian Deschodt has been involved in the discovery and description of more than 50 dung beetle species
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This was just one of two new species that was recently described by Deschodt, who has been involved in the discovery and description of more than 50 dung beetle species.Deschodt lives near Hartbeespoort Dam about 30km from the university’s Hatfield campus. After a morning of research work, he likes to stretch his legs by taking a walk to fetch his children from primary school.
“The nest might have been flooded — who knows what happened — it was out with the ants and there it was. The biology of those things are, at best, unknown.”, have such a relationship with ants. Deschodt says more work will have to be done to confirm this hypothesis. Many species of dung beetles are specific about the type of dung they use. For instance, some only use elephant or rhino dung.
All other species in this group are known to prefer the soft internal organs of millipedes. “One after the other, they enter a millipede’s carcass via any breach in the body they can find. I’ve seen some sitting tightly packed together in a carcass, almost like a string of dark pearls. They scrape soft edible tissue off, then form these into small balls to feed on later.will form a ball with the viscera of a dead millipede and bury it directly under the millipede carcass.
The species’ colour ranges from black, brown and orange to shiny coppery shades. Some can be metallic blue, green and red, while a few have coloured spots or markings. The coppery red metallic sheen of“The epithet ‘pragtig’ is Afrikaans for ‘splendid’.
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