TY - JOUR T1 - The rhinoceros beetle, Xyloryctes jamaicensis Drury (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae):a locally abundant detritivore of a Kansas riparian forest JF - Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society Y1 - 1983 A1 - Seastedt, T.R. KW - beetle KW - prairie KW - tallgrass AB -

Third stage larvae of the rhinoceros beetle, Xyloryctes jamaicensis Drury (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae), were abundant during autumn 1981 in litter and upper soil horizons of a bur oak- hackberry forest near Manhattan, Kansas. Densities of larvae ranged from 0 to 3.7 individuals/m2 within forest transects, while amounts of fecal pellets of these larvae ranged from 28.2 to 463.1 g/m2 along these same transects. No third stage larvae were present the following autumn, suggesting that the population is dominated by a particular brood. Fecal pellets exhibited slow decay rates (10%/yr), and the amount of pellets on the forest floor represents the relative abundance of several generations of larvae

VL - 56 ER -