Abstract:
Scarab beetles (Family Scarabaeidae) encompass a prominent module of beetle fauna. Adult individuals are evident because of their comparatively huge size, brilliant insignia, intricate decoration with fascinating life cycles. Scarabaeidae covers the African Goliath beetle from (Goliathus goliathus L.), and weighs nearest to 100 grams, hercules beetle (Dynastes hercules Fabr.) belongs to American tropical regions and acknowledged for its immense size range reaching to 160 mm and bears strong horns in males. Scarab beetles consist of over 27,800 species throughout the world and stimulating the display of the life cycles and many exciting adaptational capacities. Dung beetles are systematically and physio-ecologically very significant components of the land ecosystem. They are natural scavengers, adding amounts of dung into the soil, thus washing up the earth's surface from excretory material of large and medium sized herbivorous mammals. The species are extremely specialized and beneficial for community due to consuming definite primate dung. Several aspects have been recognized about their particular use of different dung beetles in multiple nutrients cycles such as nitrogen cycle, organic matter decomposition, CH4 emissions, NH3 volatilization, greenhouse gases emission, waste management, forest and agro pasture ecosystem stability as well as soil and agricultural cycles. They act as sanitation agents suppressing agents of parasites and as bioindicators. This review paper aims to describe the population distribution of scarab beetles Scarabaeidae in multiple areas of the world to assist the scientific community with their ecological services.
Keywords:
Population studies
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Coleoptera
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Scarab beetles
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Scarabaeidae