Biology:Onitis subopacus

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Onitis subopacus
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Onitis
Species:
O. subopacus
Binomial name
Onitis subopacus
Arrow, 1931 [1]
Synonyms
  • Onitis philemon Lansberge, 1875 [2] (nec Fabricius)

Onitis subopacus is a species of dung beetle found in Austro-Oriental, Oriental, South and West Palearctic regions.[1][3][4][5][2]

Distribution

It is found in India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Nagaland, New Delhi, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal),[5] Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Myanmar, Thailand, China, Afghanistan, Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia and Sunda Islands.[6]

Description

Adults are often found in cow dung and buffalo dung.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Arrow, Gilbert J. (1931). The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Coleoptera Lamellicornia Part III, (Coprinae).. Taylor & Francis, London.. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62482/page/n9/mode/2up. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lansberge, G. Van (1875). "Monographie des Onitides." (in fr). Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique 18: 142–144. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/37736. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "New records, distributional notes and species diversity of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Pothohar Plateau of Punjab, Pakistan". https://www.entomoljournal.com/archives/2015/vol3issue3/PartA/3-3-23.pdf. 
  4. ↑ "Onitis subopacus Arrow, 1931" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/1093682. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 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." (in en). European Journal of Taxonomy 956 (4): 1–61. doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.956.2657. https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2657/12287. 
  6. ↑ "New Records to the Species Diversity of Family Scarabaeidae and Hybosoridae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh (India)". https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Devanshu-Gupta-3/publication/268799501_New_Records_to_the_Species_Diversity_of_Family_Scarabaeidae_and_Hybosoridae_Coleoptera_Scarabaeoidea_of_Jabalpur_Madhya_Pradesh_India/links/5475ae810cf245eb4370f422/New-Records-to-the-Species-Diversity-of-Family-Scarabaeidae-and-Hybosoridae-Coleoptera-Scarabaeoidea-of-Jabalpur-Madhya-Pradesh-India.pdf. 

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