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Mise En Page 1 Project : Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae West Africa fauna To contact : Philippe MORETTO 5, rue Gimelli F.83000 Toulon FRANCE @ : [email protected] Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae West Africa fauna Africa, the continent of the Scarab beetles, will soon benefit from the work of a new task force. The Group Catharsius has just assembled from a group of dedicated individuals interest- ed in developing an identification tool for Africa's yet to be better known Scarab fauna. Recent collecting efforts in West Africa and taxonomic studies by members of Catharsius including Yves Cambefort, Philippe Moretto, Jean-François Josso, Patrick Prévost, Olivier Montreuil, Patrice Bordat, Frank Krell and François Génier, have generated a large quantity of specimens with precise distributional and ecological data. This material, in addition to material held in museums, will serve as the basis for a published synthesis of current taxonom- ical, distributional and ecological knowledge of Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae inhabiting West Africa. The group aims to resolve most taxonomic problems for the area through the study of Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae throughout the entire Afrotropical realm. The multi-year project will begin by data basing current holdings of Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae in order to identify areas of West Africa most in need of sampling by modern tech- niques. Catharsius members and interested partners will then target these areas in a series of col- lecting expeditions. Computerization of the newly acquired specimens will be performed accord- ing to standards developed by ScarabNet, with the goal of making the pooled data available to the entire ScarabNet community. Ultimately, the project will result in a monographic publication describing all known taxa, providing identification keys, and illustrating distributional and eco- logical data. To contact : Philippe MORETTO 5, rue Gimelli F.83000 Toulon FRANCE @ : [email protected] Yves Cambefort @ : [email protected] Yves Cambefort has been the first to study West African dung beetle ecology and biogeography in the field (Ivory Coast, etc.), and his 1984 dissertation was the first significant work pub- lished on the subject. The book he coedited in 1991 with Ilkka Hanski was also a landmark in the natural history of dung beetles. Since a few years, although he has been more involved in cultural entomology of beetles in general, he has maintained nevertheless his interest in African dung beetles, group of which he is presently one of the oldest specialists. A few papers : Cambefort Y. 1971. Scarabaeinae récoltés dans le Fouta Djalon (Guinée). Bulletin de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire, A, 33 (2) : 420-424. Cambefort Y. 1972. Scarabaeinae récoltés en Mauritanie par J.-L. Amiet. Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 2 (3) : 243- 251. Cambefort Y. 1975. Nouveaux Onthophagides du Sénégal (Col. Scarabaeidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie, 5 (2): 187-189. Cambefort Y. 1981. Coléoptères Scarabaeinae nouveaux ou peu connus de Lamto (Côte d'Ivoire). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, 85 (9-10) : 262-265. Paulian R. & Cambefort Y. 1982. Coléoptères Lamellicornes coprophages du parc national du Niokolo Koba. Dans « Recherches scientifiques dans les parcs nationaux du Sénégal, XI ». Mémoires de l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire, 92 : 159-163. Cambefort Y. 1983. Nouveaux Scarabaeidae s. str. de Côte-d'Ivoire et de pays voisins (Coleoptera). Revue française d'Entomologie, (N.S.), 5 (1) : 7-9. Cambefort Y. 1984. Étude écologique des Coléoptères Scarabaeidae s. str. de Côte d'Ivoire. Travaux des Chercheurs de Lamto (Côte-d'Ivoire), n° 3. Paris : École Normale Supérieure, viii + 294 + 12 p. Hanski I. & Cambefort Y., éditeurs, 1991. Dung Beetle Ecology. Princeton : Princeton University Press, xiv + 481 p. Cambefort Y. & Nguyen-Phung Th. 1996. On the genus Copris Müller, 1764. Definition and phylogenetic survey of the Afrotropical species-groups (Coleoptera : Scarabaeidae). Journal of African Zoology, 110 (4) : 271-289. Cambefort Y. 1997. Food choice and environment occupancy in Afrotropical dung beetles : A phylogenetic study of two examples (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Dans Grandcolas Ph., éditeur, « The origin of biodiversity in insects : Phylogenetic tests of evolutionary scenarios ». Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 173 : 125-134. Duringer P., Brunet M., Cambefort Y., Beauvilain A., MacKaye H.T., Vignaud P. & Schuster M. 2000. Des boules de bousiers fossiles et leurs terriers dans les sites à Australopithèques du Pliocène tchadien. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 171 (2) : 259-269. Cambefort Y. & Bordat P. 2004. Coléoptères Scarabaeidae s. str., Aphodiidae et Ceratocanthidae du mont Nimba et des régions limitrophes. Dans Lamotte M. & Roy R., éditeurs, « Le peuplement animal du mont Nimba ». Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 190 : 551-580. Patrice Bordat @ : [email protected] Non professional entomologist, Patrice BORDAT has been interested in the systematic of worldwide Aphodiinae, group in which he specialized for the past 25 years. Author and coauthor of more than 60 scientific publica- tions of which the majority are dealing with the Afrotropical fauna, he described over one hundred Aphodiinae species. Through the study of numerous types, primarily Afrotropical, he acquired a very good knowledge of the African fauna. Member of the Société Entomologique de France and the l'Association des Coléoptéristes de la Région Parisienne. Patrice Bordat is also an active publisher of two French journals: "Le Coléoptériste" and "La Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie". some publications: BORDAT P., 2005 - Note Scientifique. Description du mâle de Haroldaphodius panticosus Bordat, 2003 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Aphodiidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N. S.), 22 (2) : 192-193. BORDAT P., 2005 - Nouvelles espèces d'Aphodiinae de la région afrotropicale (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N. S.), 22 (1) : 35-61. BORDAT P. & DEGALLIER N., 2004 - Notes sur Rhyssemus plicatus (Germar). Le Coléoptériste [2003], 6 (3) : 207- 208. BORDAT P. & DELLACASA G., 1996 - Aphodius (Aganocrossus) postpilosus Reitter, 1895, bona species (Coleoptera, Aphodiidae). Bollettino della Societa entomologica italiana, Genova, 128: 143-150. BORDAT P. & DELLACASA G., 1999 - Le type de Psammodius (Sicardia) pierrei Hollande & Thérond, 1998. Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N. S.), 16 : 288. BORDAT P. & HOWDEN H. F., 1995 - Trois nouveaux genres, trois nouvelles espèces de Stereomerinae de Bornéo (Coleoptera, Aphodiidae). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, 100: 11-20. BORDAT P., CAMBEFORT Y. & DE MIRE P. B., 1991 - Coléoptères coprophages associés au Gorille de montagne dans la chaine des Volcans Virunga (Zaïre Oriental). Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, 96: 77-85. BORDAT P., DELLACASA G. & DELLACASA M., 2000 - Révision du genre Macroretrus Péringuey, 1908 et description d'une nouvelle espèce. Macroretroides lumareti n. g., n. sp (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea, Aphodiidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N. S.), 17 : 107-122. CAMBEFORT Y & BORDAT P., 2003 - Coléoptères Scarabaeidae s. str., Aphodiidae et Ceratocanthidae du mont Nimba et des régions limitrophes, in Lamotte M. et Roy R. (eds), Le peuplement animal du mont Nimba (Guinée, Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 190 : 551-580. DELLACASA G., BORDAT P. & DELLACASA M., 2001 - A revisional essay of world genus-group taxa of Aphodiinae. Memorie della Societa entomologica italiana, 79 (2000) : 1-482. DELLACASA M., DELLACASA G. & BORDAT P., 2002 - Aphodius davidkrali, a new species from China (Coleoptera, Aphodiidae). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N. S.), 19 (1) : 7-9. DELLACASA M., DELLACASA G. & BORDAT P., 2002 - Systematic redefinition of taxa belonging to genera Ahermodontus Baguena, 1930 and Ammoecius Mulsant, 1842, with description of the new genus Vladimirellus (Coleoptera; Aphodiidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 48 (4) : 269-316. DELLACASA M., DELLACASA G. & BORDAT P., 2004 - Aphodius davidkrali Dellacasa et al., 2002 = Aphodius (Phaeaphodius) plutenkoi Kral, 2002, nouvelle synonymie. Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N. S.), [2003] 20 (3) : 279. MORETTO Ph. & BORDAT P., 2007 - Les Scarabéides coprophages du Parc National du Niokolo-Koba au Sénégal (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea). Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie (N. S.), [2006] 23 (2) : 115-145. François Génier @ : [email protected] François Génier is an amateur entomologist. He has been studying Scarabaeinae for more than 30 years. His interest for studying insects resulted in several scientific publications on Coleoptera and especially Scarabaeinae. Several expeditions in most Countries of America, South and West Africa gave him the opportunity to acquire in-depth knowledge of modern collecting techniques. F. Génier is a member of the Coleopterist Society, The Entomological Society of America and the Association des entomologistes amateurs du Québec. Publications (Scarabaeidae) Génier F. 1984. Malformation de la patte droite chez un Aphodius subterraneus L. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae). Fabreries 10(4): 75-76. Génier F. 1996. A revision of the Neotropical genus Ontherus Erichson. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 170: 1-169. Génier F. 1998. A revision of the Neotropical genus Ontherus Erichson (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae), Supplement 1. The Coleopterists Bulletin 52(3): 270-274. Génier F. & H.F. Howden. 1999. Two new
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