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

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scientific name	Onthophagus (Onthophagus) circulifer Arrow, 1931
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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.

References

Arrow GJ (1931) The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, part III, Coleoptera: Lamellicornia (Coprinae). Taylor and Francis, London, 353 pp.

Karimbumkara SN, Priyadarsanan DR (2013) Fauna of Karnataka, State Fauna Series. Zoological Survey of India 21: 173 - 178.

Karimbumkara SN, Priyadarsanan DR (2016) Report of dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) attracted to unconventional resources, with the description of three new species. Entomon 41 (4): 265 - 282.