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Species of beetle

Onitis excavatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Onitis
Species: O. excavatus
Binomial name
Onitis excavatus
Arrow, 1931

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.

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

References

  1. ^ Arrow, Gilbert J. (1931). The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Coleoptera Lamellicornia Part III, (Coprinae). Taylor & Francis, London.
  2. 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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Taxon identifiers
Onitis excavatus


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