Onitis falcatus

Onitis falcatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Scarabaeiformia
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Onitis
Species:	O. falcatus
Binomial name
	Onitis falcatus; (Wulfen, 1786)
Synonyms
	Scarabaeus falcatus Wulfen, 1786; Onitis himaleyicus Redtenbacher, 1844; Onitis kiuchii Masumoto 1995;

Onitis falcatus is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is fairly widespread in Asia.

Description

Black or nearly black, with a clothing of reddish-yellow hair upon the legs and lower surface, smooth and shining, with the elytra and pygidium subopaque. Length is 16–23 mm, and breadth is 8–12 mm.

Distribution

India (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, New Delhi, Odisha, Puducherry,Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Malay Peninsula, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

References

1 2 Wulfen, Xaver (1786). Descriptiones quorumdam Capensium insectorum. Erlangae: W. Walther. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.66070. Retrieved 2025-01-28.
↑ Lansberge, G. Van (1875). "Monographie des Onitides". Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique (in French). 18: 142–144.
1 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.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Arrow, Gilbert J. (1931). The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Coleoptera Lamellicornia Part III, (Coprinae). Taylor & Francis, London.

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[c162-1] 1 2 Wulfen, Xaver (1786). Descriptiones quorumdam Capensium insectorum. Erlangae: W. Walther. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.66070. Retrieved 2025-01-28.

[lans1875-2] Lansberge, G. Van (1875). "Monographie des Onitides". Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique (in French). 18: 142–144.

[kp2024-3] 1 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.

[arrow1931-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Arrow, Gilbert J. (1931). The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Coleoptera Lamellicornia Part III, (Coprinae). Taylor & Francis, London.