Onthophagus (Onthophagus) circulifer Arrow, 1931

Kharel, Bhim Prasad, Schoolmeester, Paul & Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar, 2020, A first faunistic account on the Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) of the Nadia district, West Bengal, with a preliminary checklist from India, Check List 16 (2), pp. 361-381 : 365

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.2.361

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scientific name

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) circulifer Arrow, 1931
status

 

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) circulifer Arrow, 1931 View in CoL Figure 2F, G

Material examined (1♂, 1♀). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Nabadwip (23°23′57″N, 088°22′08″E), S.K.Sarkar leg., 08.VII.2018, KUZEN S0134 (1♂), KUZEN S0135 (1♀).

Identification (♂). This species can be distinguished from other Onthophagus species by the uniform dorsal colour; head broad, with sparse punctures and a pair of backwardly inclined, and short parallel horns on the vertex, basally fused by a medially toothed carina; clypeus produced and bilobed anteriorly; pronotum strongly convex and annularly punctate; elytra shallowly striate, with interstriae flat and minutely granulate; pygidium coarsely and annularly punctate.

Geographical distribution. Myanmar ( Arrow 1931; Karimbumkara and Priyadarsanan 2013). India: Assam, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Punjab, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal ( Arrow 1931; Chandra et al. 2012a, 2012c; Karimbumkara and Priyadarsanan 2013, 2016).

Remarks. This species is widely distributed throughout the country.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Onthophagus

Loc

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) circulifer Arrow, 1931

Kharel, Bhim Prasad, Schoolmeester, Paul & Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar 2020
2020
Loc

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) circulifer

Arrow 1931
1931
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