[1] The species uses coprophagous beetles and reptiles as transportation hosts with dogs, cats, and other wild carnivores being their final carrier for reproduction.

Distinction can be made in the gravid proglottid egg packets, which contain only a single hexacanth embryo covered by uterine material in the genus Joyeuxiella compared to Dipylidium.

Joyeuxiella fuhrmanni, on the other hand, is similar in shape to J. pasqualei, but it has no testes anterior to the vas deferens and the egg capsules are located medially to the longitudinal excretory vessels.

These flatworms utilize coprophagous beetles and reptiles as transportation hosts with dogs, cats, and other wild carnivores being the final carrier.

Experiments have shown that rodents cannot be infected by direct ingestion of gravid proglottids, suggesting that an invertebrate first intermediate host, such as coprophagous beetles, is necessary to complete the life cycle.