Sisyphus (beetle)

Sisyphus (beetle)

Taxobox
name = "Sisyphus"



image_caption = "Sisyphus longipes"
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Coleoptera
superfamilia = Scarabaeoidea
familia = Scarabaeidae
subfamilia = Scarabaeinae
tribus = Sisyphini
genus = "Sisyphus"
genus_authority = Latreille, 1807
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"Sisyphus" is a genus of dung beetles. One common species is "Sisyphus schaefferi" (Linnaeus, 1758).


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