Onitis crassus

Onitis crassus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Onitis
Species:
O. crassus
Binomial name
Onitis crassus
Sharp, 1875
Synonyms

Onitis vischnu Preudhomme de Borre, 1881

Onitis crassus is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae described by David Sharp based on a specimen collected in India.

Description

Black, not very shining. Length is 15.5–21 mm, and breadth is 9–10.5 mm.

Distribution

India (Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh), Nepal, Pakistan

Habitat

Found in cattle dung.

References

  1. 1 2 David Sharp (1875). "Descriptions of some new genera and species of Scarabaeidae from tropical Asia and Malasia". Coleopterologische Hefte. 3 (XIV). München, Carl Merhoff's Verlag.
  2. 1 2 3 Arrow, Gilbert J. (1931). The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Coleoptera Lamellicornia Part III, (Coprinae). Taylor & Francis, London.
  3. ↑ 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 (4): 1–61. Bibcode:2024EJTax.956....1K. doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.956.2657.