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Historical and morphological review of the subgenus Indonthophagus Kabakov, 2006 of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Onthophagini)

Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Scarabaeinae
Onthophagini

  • Stefano Ziani

    GeoL@b APS, Via Laderchi, 3, 48018 Faenza (RA), Italy

Zoobank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9D0CE9F2-35CF-449D-8984-1B4C722762F7

Keywords: Taxonomy, faunistic, dung beetles, Palaearctic, new country records

Abstract

The subgenus Indonthophagus Kabakov, 2006 of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Scara¬baeidae: Scarabaeinae: Onthophagini) is reviewed. A morphological definition of it is provided. A diagnosis, based both on external and internal characters, of the seven species deemed to belong to the group according to literature, is supplied. As a result, Onthophagus spinifex (Fabricius, 1781), previously placed with some uncertainty in the subgenus, is definitively excluded. A key to Indonthophagus species is also provided, as well as images of male, aedeagus and endophallus for each species. New country records of Onthophagus turbatus Walker, 1858 for Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan are given.

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Ziani S. 2024. Historical and morphological review of the subgenus Indonthophagus Kabakov, 2006 of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Onthophagini). Insecta Mundi 1038: 1-42.