Onthophagus admetus Balthasar, 1946

Bezděk, Aleš & Hájek, Jiří, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1), pp. 387-442 : 398

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5739743
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5739843
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2A1F561E-627D-190B-FE50-FD504A7DFBE4
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Onthophagus admetus Balthasar, 1946
status

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Onthophagus admetus Balthasar, 1946 View in CoL

Onthophagus admetus Balthasar, 1946c: 24 View in CoL .

The holotype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. V. Balthasar):

HOLOTYPE (♀): ‘Cauca-Tal / Columbien [p] // Coll. Kraatz [p] // Typus [p, red label, black frame] // Onthophagus / admetus / n.sp. [hw] / Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 26230 [hw, orange label] // SEM [p, yellow label] // Onthophagus / admetus Balth. [hw, green label] // Onthophagus / admetus / Balthasar [hw] / dét. F. Génier 2003 [p]’.

Current status. Valid species; not assigned to any subgenus.

Remark. According to GÉNIER (2003), the holotype is mislabeled and it was collected in subsaharan Africa.