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Alissonotum piceum, is a species of dung beetle found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Réunion island and Mauritius.

Biology

Male genitalia consists with elongated phallobase, slender and oval paramere and much outward prolonged apex. Aedeagus is about 3.65 mm in size.

Both adult and grub are found in the furrows and the sugarcane setts. Sometimes they bore through the shoot bases. The species is known to parasitized by Tiphia parallela.

One subspecies is recorded: Alissonotum piceum besucheti, Endrödi, 1977.

References

1. Vercambre, Bernard; Pastou, Didier; Aberlenc, Henri-Pierre; Manikom, Ronald (2007). "Alissonotum piceum besucheti Endrödi, 1977, espèce nouvelle pour l'île de la Réunion" (Coleoptera, Dynastidae)". Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France. pp. 349–356. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
2. ^ "Datasheet: Alissonotum piceum". CABI. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
3. "Studies on Rhinoceros Beetles (Coleoptera— Scarabaeidae—Dynastinae) from Madhya Pradesh, central India" (PDF). Colemania, Number 34, pp. 1-9. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
4. "Alissonotum piceum besucheti Endrödi, 1977: a new introduction in Reunion Island (Coleoptera, Dynastidae)". www.cabdirect.org. Retrieved 2021-07-16.
5. "Biology and ecology of sugarcane white grubs in Mauritius" (PDF). XXI Congress of ISSCT …, 1995. Retrieved 2021-07-15.
6. "Alissonotum piceum besucheti subsp. n. (Coleoptera, Melolonthidae, Dynastinae) [1977]". Revue suisse de zoologie, 1977. Retrieved 2021-07-15.

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