Onitis naviauxi Cambefort, 1988

Karimbumkara, Seena Narayanan & Priyadarsanan, Dharma Rajan, 2024, Study on the genus Onitis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of the Indian Subcontinent, with three new species from India, European Journal of Taxonomy 956, pp. 1-61 : 30-31

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.956.2657

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13768283

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/557187D2-FFEB-8918-9D54-F9EBFB5AF9A0

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scientific name

Onitis naviauxi Cambefort, 1988
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Onitis naviauxi Cambefort, 1988 View in CoL

Figs 4E–F View Fig , 10D View Fig , 19 View Fig

Onitisnaviauxi Cambefort, 1988: 189 (original description).

Onitis naviauxi View in CoL – Bezděk & Krell 2006: 159 (distribution). — Bezděk 2016: 179 (distribution). — Schoolmeesters 2022 (online catalogue).

Differential diagnosis

Cambefort (1988) classified Onitisnaviauxi in Group III of Janssens (1937). It is similar to O. assamensis in having vertex with punctures and clypeal carina being placed away from vertex. It is distinct from the latter in having shorter clypeal carina and the male protibia having 3–4 teeth on the inferomedial ridge, while in O. assamensis there are 6–7 teeth.

Type material examined (based on images)

Holotype

NEPAL • ♂; “ Onitisnaviauxi n. sp. Y. Cambefort det. 1987, Nepal: Sauraha. Alt. 150, 19.4.82 RN”; MNHN EC4807 .

Paratype

NEPAL • ♀; “ Onitisnaviauxi n. sp. Y. Cambefort det. 1987, Nepal: Sauraha. Alt. 150, 19.4.82 RN”; MNHN EC4808 .

Description

MEASUREMENTS (in mm). TL=20–25. BW= 10–12.

Male

Bronzy green, shining; head rounded, slightly flattened anteriorly; clypeus with fine, sparse punctuation, slightly rugose behind; clypeal carina present, short; frontal carina narrowly interrupted in the middle, with a fairly strong sharp tubercle behind; vertex with smooth punctures; pronotum with simple, strong and dense punctures on the disc, finer, more sparse anteriorly, almost imperceptible at the sides; base not bordered, basal foveae round and placed apart; scutellum very small; elytra smooth, striae broad, not very deep, intervals minutely and sparsely punctured; pygidium convex, very minutely punctured; metasternal shield with shallow longitudinal groove, sparse fine long hairs, the sides granulate anteriorly. Clypeus reflexed, straight in the middle. Profemur with a strong tooth on the antero-median ridge, protibia short, tridentate on the infero-internal ridge, median femur unarmed, tibia toothed on the dorsal side, posterior femur with a strong tooth on the ridge below, directed towards the back, tibia bilobed at the apex.

AEDEAGUS ( Fig. 4E–F View Fig ). Parameres shorter than the phallobase, phallobase cylindrical, slightly curved; parameres straight above and curved below, largely notched on the underside.

Female

Similar to male but more elongated head, clypeus parabolic, not much reflexed, rugose; with confluent transverse rugulosity behind the clypeal carina; vertex as in the male, with simple, very sparse punctuation; metasternum with well-marked narrow groove; legs not toothed.

Distribution

Nepal ( Cambefort 1988; Bezděk & Krell 2006; Bezděk 2016; Schoolmeesters 2022).

MNHN

France, Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Onitis

Loc

Onitis naviauxi Cambefort, 1988

Karimbumkara, Seena Narayanan & Priyadarsanan, Dharma Rajan 2024
2024
Loc

Onitis naviauxi

Bezdek A. 2016: 179
Bezdek A. & Krell F. - T. 2006: 159
2006
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