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Portugal · Nature & Wildlife · Hard
The Portuguese Escaravelho (scarab beetle) species Thorectes lusitanicus feeds primarily on what unusual diet?
Answer: Dung of rabbits and other herbivores — Thorectes lusitanicus, a flightless dung beetle endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and common in Portugal's Alentejo, feeds on the dung of rabbits and sheep in Mediterranean woodlands.
- A Decaying cork oak bark
- B Rotting citrus fruit
- C Fungus growing on chestnut trees
- D Dung of rabbits and other herbivores ✓
Thorectes lusitanicus, a flightless dung beetle endemic to the Iberian Peninsula and common in Portugal's Alentejo, feeds on the dung of rabbits and sheep in Mediterranean woodlands.