Species Account for Aphodius zenkeri

Essex Red Data List comment
Essex Post-1969 record/s; VC18 1970-on record/s.

Species text
The dung beetle Aphodius zenkeri is widespread and very local, recorded throughout southern England and north to Yorkshire and Cheshire; it has also been noted in North Wales (Hyman & Parsons, 1992). It is found in woodland and deer parks, predominantly in deer dung but occasionally in other types of dung, though usually where deer are present. The species is probably threatened by the loss of pasture-woodland and woodland through, for example, clear-felling and conversion to other land use. Lack of, or a change in grazing regimes is a further threat. The beetle is an opportunistic and mobile species requiring a continuity of dung availability, and because of this it is likely to require large areas of suitable habitat for its continued survival (Hyman & Parsons, op. cit.). References

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