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Retraction of: Examining phenotypic variations in an introduced population of the invasive dung beetle Digitonthophagus gazella (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Retraction of: https://doi.org/10.1515/flaent-2024-0057
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Published/Copyright: September 12, 2025

Retraction of: Stanbrook-Buyer, R. and Allen, J. (2025). Examining phenotypic variations in an introduced population of the invasive dung beetle Digitonthophagus gazella (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Florida Entomologist 108: 20240057. https://doi.org/10.1515/flaent-2024-0057.

This article has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor-in-Chief Dr. Emma Weeks, and Walter de Gruyter GmbH. The retraction has been agreed at the request of the corresponding author Dr. Roisin Stanbrook-Buyer, due to the misidentification of species used in the study. The retraction has been approved by all co-authors.


Corresponding author: Roisin Stanbrook-Buyer, Department of Integrated Environmental Science, Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach, Florida 32114, USA, E-mail:

Published Online: 2025-09-12

© 2025 the author(s), published by De Gruyter on behalf of the Florida Entomological Society

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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