Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of Serra do Divisor National Park, Brazil

Bach, Andressa, Haugaasen, Torbjørn, Peres, Carlos A., Lucena, Emanuelly F., Ferreira, José Victor A., Hawes, Joseph E., Bordin, Bruna R., Cupello, Mario, de Azevedo, Renato A. and Vaz-de-Mello, Fernando Z. (2025) Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of Serra do Divisor National Park, Brazil. Biota Neotropica, 25 (1). ISSN 1678-6424

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Abstract

Serra do Divisor National Park (SDNP) is a protected area located in the western Brazilian Amazon that is threatened by a pending bill proposing to downgrade its status and to build a road that would effectively slice the park in half. The biodiversity of SDNP is poorly understood and no dung beetle inventories have been conducted within the park to date, despite being one of the most studied insect groups in the Neotropics. We sampled dung beetles with flight interception traps (FITs) and pitfall traps baited with human faeces to provide the first comprehensive dung beetle species list for SDNP. In total, we collected 4,909 dung beetle individuals belonging to 83 species. Of these, 18 were new species records for the state of Acre and two for Brazil. We also found species with Andean affinity and five species new to science. This study contributes to our understanding of dung beetle assemblages in the western Brazilian Amazon, showing that SDNP is a unique locality due to the proximity of the Andes, and highlighting that biodiversity in many Amazonian protected areas remains severely under sampled.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Data Availability: Supporting data are available at https://doi.org/10.48331/scielodata.QT4KDV.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	amazon,flight interception traps,pitfall,species list,ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Biology Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	01 Apr 2026 16:30
Last Modified:	01 Apr 2026 16:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/102707
DOI:	10.1590/1676-0611-BN-2025-1770

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