Onthophagus bajacalifornianus, Moctezuma & Halffter, 2019

Moctezuma, Victor & Halffter, Gonzalo, 2019, New biogeographical makeup for colonisation of the Baja California Peninsulaı with the description of a new Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), Journal of Natural History 53 (33), pp. 2057-2071 : 2057-2071

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2019.1685694

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3663845

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9D2287BA-6E2C-3C70-FF01-FABFFB36F950

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Valdenar

scientific name

Onthophagus bajacalifornianus
status

 

Key to the Onthophagus chevrolati View in CoL species group modified from Zunino and Halffter

(1988a) to include the new species.

12. Dorsal colour dark blue. ............................................................................................................. 13

– Different colourı without strong contrast in the elytraı head and pronotum................................................................................................................................ 14

13. Pronotal prominence of the major male obtusely triangular; head and pronotum shiningı contrasting strongly with the dull elytraı frontal carina medially sinuateı clypeal carina developed ........... ........... O. semiopacus Harold 1869 View in CoL

– Pronotal prominence of the major male obtusely trapezoidalı dorsal habitus completely mate with a greenish castı frontal carina trapezoidal in shapeı clypeal carina absent ..... ................................................................................................................. O. bajacalifornianus View in CoL new species

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Onthophagus

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