Common dung beetle (Coprinopsis cinerea)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Psathyrellaceae (Psatyrellaceae)
- Genus: Coprinopsis (Koprinopsis)
- Type: Coprinopsis cinerea (Common dung beetle)
- Dung beetle gray
Description:
Hat 1-3 cm in diameter, first elliptical, with a white felt coating, then bell-shaped, radially ribbed, cracked into individual fibers, with an uneven edge, with remnants of a felt bedspread, gray, gray-gray, with a brownish top. In mature mushrooms, the edge bends, turns black and the cap begins to self-decompose.
The plates are frequent, free, white, gray then black.
Spore powder is black.
Leg 5-10 cm long and 0,3-0,5 cm in diameter, cylindrical, thickened at the base, fibrous, brittle, hollow inside, whitish, with a root-like process.
The flesh is thin, fragile, white, then gray, without much odor.
Spread:
The common dung beetle lives from the last ten days of May to mid-September on rich fertilized soil after rains, in fields, vegetable gardens, orchards, on garbage heaps, in light forests and along forest roads, in grass and on the litter, singly (in the forest) and in small in groups, not often, annually.