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Flightless dung beetle

species of insect
Taxon taxon Q1083045
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Flightless dung beetle

Summary

Flightless dung beetle is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (65 views/month, #1,605 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Flightless dung beetle's instance of is recorded as taxon[3].
  • Flightless dung beetle is classified at the rank of species[4].
  • Flightless dung beetle is classified within Circellium[5].
  • Flightless dung beetle's scientific name is Circellium bacchus[6].
  • Flightless dung beetle's Commons category is recorded as Circellium bacchus[7].
  • Flightless dung beetle's original combination is recorded as Scarabaeus bacchus[8].
  • Flightless dung beetle's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'C. bacchus'}[9].

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Classification

Under binomial nomenclature, Flightless dung beetle is Circellium bacchus[6]. It is classified at the rank of species[4]. It belongs to the parent taxon Circellium[5].

Identifiers

Flightless dung beetle's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 425044[10]. Flightless dung beetle's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 205291[11]. Flightless dung beetle's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 552178[12]. Flightless dung beetle's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 1088803[13].

Why It Matters

Flightless dung beetle ranks in the top 0.82% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (65 views/month, #1,605 of 195,241).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [11] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [12] ↑ . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [13] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Nabbegat · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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