Endangered
Thorectes sardous
Thorectes sardous
Thorectes sardous is a beetle in the family Geotrupidae (order Coleoptera), recorded as Endangered and tied to France and Italy.
The beetle
Beetles are the largest insect order. The hard forewings (elytra) cover the flight wings; larvae and adults often eat different things.
An insect has six legs and, in winged forms, one or two pairs of wings. Most named species in this catalog are known from a type series and a locality, not from a popular field guide.
Range and habitat
Thorectes sardous is recorded from France and Italy.
GBIF currently lists 22 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Life history
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
Thorectes sardous is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from Wikidata item Q2165254 and GBIF occurrence geography. No dedicated encyclopedia article was available at build time. Family and order context is original writing about the group — not a claim that a monograph exists for this name. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.
