Onitis excavatus
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Scarabaeiformia |
| Family: | Scarabaeidae |
| Genus: | Onitis |
| Species: | O. excavatus |
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| Onitis excavatus | |
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
[edit]Black and shining. Length is 25 mm, and breadth is 13 mm.
Distribution
[edit]India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh), China, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam[2]
References
[edit]- 1 2 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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