Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Zoology and Entomology
Scholtz, CH
BSc(Hons) MSc DSc(Pret) - Professor
NRF Rating: B1
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3236
Fax number: 012 362 5242
E-mail address: chscholtz@zoology.up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Sustainable insect management
Biology of fragmented populations; Conservation planning; Conservation and restoration ecology; and Biodiversity and systematics
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Frolov A, Scholtz CH: 2003. Revision of the Afrotropical dung beetle genus Sarophorus Erichson (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). African Entomology, 11 (2), pp 183-198.
Frolov A, Scholtz CH: 2003. A new genus and species of dung beetle from southern Namibia (Coleoptera: Scarabeidae: Scarabaeinae). African Entomology, 11 (2), pp 297-299.
Medina CA, Scholtz CH, Gill BD: 2003. Morphological variation and systematics of Canthon Hoffmansegg 1817, and related general of new world Canthonini dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeinae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 50, pp 23-68.
Grebennikov VV, Scholtz CH: 2003. Larvae and pupae of Dascillidae (Coleoptera): Morphological study and discussion of their relationships to Scarabaeoidea and Eulichadidae. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 34 (1), pp 29-39.
Byrne M, Dacke M, Nordström P, Scholtz CH, Warrant E: 2003. Visual cues used by ball-rolling dung beetles for orientation. Journal of Comparative Physiology, 189, pp 411-418.
Dacke M, Nordström P, Scholtz CH: 2003. Twilight orientation to polarized light in the crepuscular dung beetle Scarabaeus zambesianus. Journal of Experimental Biology, 206 (9) / May, pp 1535-1543.
Harrison JDG, Scholtz CH, Chown SL: 2003. A revision of the endemic south-western African dung beetle subgenus Scarabaeus (Pachysoma) MacLeay, including notes on other flightless Scarabaeini (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Journal of Natural History, 37, pp 305-355.
Dacke M, Nilsson D-E, Scholtz CH, Byrne M, Warrant E: 2003. Insect orientation to polarized moonlight. Nature, 424 / July, p. 33.
Davis ALV, van Aarde RJ, Scholtz CH, Delport JH: 2003. Convergence between dung beetle assemblages of a post-mining vegetational chronosequence and unmined dune forest. Restoration Ecology, 11 (1), pp 29-42.
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