Family: ScarabaeidaeSubfamily: Scarabaeinae
Tribe: Onitini
Bubas bubaloides is widely distributed in the south and east of the Mediterranean basin, from Morocco (many sites) to Turkey. The species replaces to B.bison in northern Magreb.
Distripution:
Algeria; Cyprus; Greece; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Libya; Morocco; Syrian Arab Republic; Tunisia & Turkey.
Habitat and Ecology:
It is an species that can be found between sea level to 1,500 m asl in Morocco. This species inhabits grasslands and shrublands. It digs tunnels for breathing and eating, and it is absent or rare when the soil is too compact and where the water table level is too close to the surface.
This species feeds mostly on droppings of large animals (e.g., horse and cow dung).
Major Threat(s):
Changes in land use, such as changes in the type of livestock or replacement of livestock for intensive agriculture, could produce local declines. There is a potential risk of mortality of larvae when adults use dung contaminated by some veterinary medical products for breeding. From www.iucnredlist.orgPhotos at Akrotiri 10/4/2016, by Michael Hadjiconstantis
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