Hence, it will perhaps be safest to look at the entire absence of the anterior tarsi in Ateuchus, and their rudimentary condition in some other genera, not as cases of inherited mutilations, but as due to the effects of long-continued disuse; for as many dung-feeding beetles are generally found with their tarsi lost, this must happen early in life; therefore the tarsi cannot be of much importance or be much used by these insects.
Horregatik agian seguruena Ateuchusa aurreko tartsorik gabekotzat jotzea da, eta beste genero batzuen hasi-masiko tartsoak, ez mozketa heredatuko kasutzat, luzaroko erabilerarik ezak eraginiko ondorentzat baizik; izan ere, tartsoak galduriko kakarraldo koprofago asko topatzen direnez gero, hau gazterik gertatu behar izan zitzaien; eta, horregatik, intsektu hauentzat tartsoak ezin dira garrantzi edo emendio handikoak izan.