Onthophagus kokodanus, Krikken, Jan & Huijbregts, Johannes, 2012

Krikken, Jan & Huijbregts, Johannes, 2012, Taxonomy of new relatives of Onthophagus catenatus Lansberge, 1883 from New Guinea (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae), ZooKeys 251, pp. 49-67 : 58

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.251.3994

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Onthophagus kokodanus
status

sp. n.

Onthophagus kokodanus View in CoL   ZBK sp. n.

Comments.

Under this species name two subspecies are characterized, one from the Kokoda Trail region E of Port Moresby, at about 700 m, and one from the Mt Hagen region at about 1800 m. They differ in structural development and in microsculpture, as diagnosed hereafter and in the key above.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

SubFamily

Scarabaeinae

Genus

Onthophagus