Onitis excavatus
| Onitis excavatus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Onitis |
| Species: | O. excavatus
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| Binomial name | |
| Onitis excavatus Arrow, 1931 [1]
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Onitis excavatus is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae described using male specimen collected by E. T. Atkinson collected from Tenasserim in Myanmar.[1]
Description
Black and shining. Length is 25 mm, and breadth is 13 mm.
Distribution
India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh), China, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam[2]
References
- ^ a b Arrow, Gilbert J. (1931). The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Coleoptera Lamellicornia Part III, (Coprinae). Taylor & Francis, London.
- ^ Karimbumkara, Seena N.; Priyadarsanan, Dharma R. (2024). "Study on the genus Onitis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of the Indian Subcontinent, with three new species from India". European Journal of Taxonomy. 956 (4): 1–61. doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.956.2657.
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