Sisyphus (beetle)

Sisyphus
Sisyphus longipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Superfamily:	Scarabaeoidea
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Scarabaeinae
Tribe:	Sisyphini
Genus:	Sisyphus Latreille, 1807
Species
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Sisyphus is a genus of dung beetles comprising more than 90 species. Adults are characterised by their long hind legs.

Africa, Eurasia, Asia, Central America and Australia.

Adults separate balls of dung from droppings and roll them some distance over the soil surface before burying them. Eggs are laid in the buried dung; this provides a source of food for the larvae once they hatch.

One common species is Sisyphus schaefferi (Linnaeus, 1758).

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