Onthophagus (Onthophagus) andrewesi 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 : 363-365

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.2.361

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scientific name

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) andrewesi Arrow, 1931
status

 

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) andrewesi Arrow, 1931 View in CoL Figure 2B

Material examined (1♂). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Haringhata (22°57′48″N, 088°33′41″E), S.K.Sarkar leg., 03.VIII.2017, KUZEN S0129 (1♂).

Identification (♂). This species can be distinguished from other Onthophagus species by the head broad, with rounded sides and a pair of backwardly produced

recurved horns on the vertex; clypeus produced, with

a slightly rounded carina separating it from the forehead; pronotum coarsely punctate, with a mid-longitudinal groove and blunt front angles; elytra finely striate, with interstriae minutely granulate; pygidium sparingly punctate.

Geographical distribution. India: Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu ( Arrow 1931; Biswas and Chatterjee 1986b; Chandra 2009; Karimbumkara and Priyadarsanan 2013; Sathiandran et al. 2015).

Remarks. This species is newly recorded for West Bengal state.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Onthophagus

Loc

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) andrewesi Arrow, 1931

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

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) andrewesi

Arrow 1931
1931
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