Dung beetles of Azorean cattle-grazed pasturelands - data of the DUNGPOOL project

A total of 1,141 dung beetle individuals were recorded across these islands: 18 individuals in Pico Island, 480 individuals in Faial Island and 643 individuals in Terceira Island. These individuals were distributed amongst four species from the family Scarabaeidae (Insecta, Coleoptera): <i>Calamosternus granarius</i> (Linnaeus, 1767), <i>Labarrus lividus</i> (Olivier, 1789), <i>Onthophagus taurus</i> (Schreber, 1759) and <i>Onthophagus medius</i> (Kugelann, 1792). The species <i>O. medius</i> is a new record for this Archipelago and we propose that previous historical records of <i>Onthophagus vacca</i> (Linnaeus, 1767) should now be considered a regional synonym of <i>Onthophagus medius</i>.