Deltochilum | |
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Deltochilum gibbosum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Scarabaeidae |
Tribe: | Deltochilini |
Genus: | Deltochilum Eschscholtz, 1822 |
Diversity | |
at least 100 species | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Deltochilum is a genus of true dung beetles in the family Scarabaeidae native to the Americas. There are more than 100 described species in Deltochilum.[2][1][3][4][5] Unusually for a dung beetle, a few species in the genus, including D: valgum, are predators that kill and feed on millipedes.[6]