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Onthophagus asperipennis d'Orbigny 1902

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Onthophagus asperipennis has been collected by Frey (1961) in the gallery rain forests of the Garamba National Park, Congo. These were found in thoroughly rotten tree trunks and it is possible that they feed on the mycelia of fungi growing there.

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Papers species cited in with links.

Frey, G. (1961) Park National de la Garamba. Mission H. de Saeger, Onthophagini (Coleoptera Lamellicornia), Institut des Parcs Nationaux du Congo et du Ruanda-Urundi, 21 (4): 69-91, 1 fig. cited in Halffter, G. and Matthews E.G. (1966) The Natural History of Dung Beetles of the subfamily scarabaeinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) Se solicita intercambio con publicaciones similares, page 40 and 60.

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