Onthophagus

Onthophagus
	Onthophagus nuchicornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Tribe:	Onthophagini
Genus:	Onthophagus; Latreille, 1802

Gazella scarab (Onthophagus gazella) males; note variation in horn size

Onthophagus is a genus of dung beetles in the Onthophagini tribe of the wider scarab beetle family, Scarabaeidae.^[2] It is the most species-rich and widespread genus in the subfamily Scarabaeinae (the 'true' dung beetles), with a global distribution.

Etymology[]

The Genus name derives from the Greek onthos, meaning dung, and phagos, meaning eater.^[3]

Taxonomy[]

This genus includes more than 20 subgenera and over 2,100 species.^[1]^[4]^[5] Some of the subgenera (including Proagoderus, Diastellopalpus, Digitonthophagus, , and Euonthophagus) are now widely recognized as genera.^[6]

Selected species[]

(Fabricius, 1798)
(Fabricius, 1781)
(Scopoli, 1763)
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) taurus (Schreber, 1759)
(Thunberg, 1818)
(, 1979)
(Petrovitz, 1963)
(Nicolas, 1964)
Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) coenobita (Herbst, 1783)
(Ménetriés, 1832)
(Pittino & Mariani, 1981)
(Reiche & Saulcy, 1856)
(Steven, 1809)
(Preyssler, 1790)
Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) gazella (Fabricius, 1787)
(Pallas, 1781)
(Reitter, 1905)
(Goljan, 1953)
(Harold, 1877)
(Reitter, 1893)
(d'Orbigni, 1897)
(Fabricius, 1781)
(Steven, 1811)
(Sturm, 1800)
(Miksic, 1959)
(Gebler, 1817)
- Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) marginalis andalusicus (Waltl, 1835)
- Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) marginalis marginalis (Gebler, 1817)
(Baraud, 1975)
(Chevrolat, 1865)
Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) nuchicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)
(Reitter, 1893)
(Linnaeus, 1767)
(Petrovitz, 1964)
(Harold, 1883)
(Brullé, 1832)
(Panzer, 1798)
(Reitter, 1893)
(Scriba, 1790)
(Graëlls, 1851)
(Brullé, 1832)
(Semenov-Tian-Shanskii & Medvedev, 1927)
(Reitter, 1893)
Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) vacca (Linnaeus, 1767)
(Laicharting, 1781)
(Fabricius, 1776)
(Mulsant & Godart, 1842)
(Illiger, 1803)
(Illiger, 1803)
(Illiger, 1803)
(Illiger, 1803)

Gallery[]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Sergey I. Tarasov & Oleg N. Kabakov (2010). "Two new species of Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Indochina, with a discussion of some problems with the classification of Serrophorus and similar subgenera" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2344: 17–28.
^ "Onthophagus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
^ "Genus Onthophagus". BugGuide. John VanDyk. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
^ Catalogue of life
^ "Onthophagus - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
^ Philips, T. Keith (11 April 2016). "Phylogeny of the Oniticellini and Onthophagini dung beetles (Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from morphological evidence". ZooKeys. 579: 9–57. doi:10.3897/zookeys.579.6183. PMC 4829968. PMID 27110200. Retrieved 23 November 2016.

Kharel BP, Schoolmeester P, Sarkar SK (2020) A first faunistic account on the Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) of the Nadia district, West Bengal, with a preliminary checklist from India. Check List 16(2): 361-381. https://doi.org/10.15560/16.2.361

External links[]

Ratcliffe, Brett; Jameson, Mary Liz. "Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles". Archived from the original on 2019-03-30. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
Media related to Onthophagus at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Onthophagus at Wikispecies

[Tarasov-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Sergey I. Tarasov & Oleg N. Kabakov (2010). "Two new species of Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Indochina, with a discussion of some problems with the classification of Serrophorus and similar subgenera" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2344: 17–28.

[2] "Onthophagus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

[3] "Genus Onthophagus". BugGuide. John VanDyk. Retrieved 14 June 2014.

[4] Catalogue of life

[Wikispecies2016-5] "Onthophagus - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 23 November 2016.

[Philips2016-6] Philips, T. Keith (11 April 2016). "Phylogeny of the Oniticellini and Onthophagini dung beetles (Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from morphological evidence". ZooKeys. 579: 9–57. doi:10.3897/zookeys.579.6183. PMC 4829968. PMID 27110200. Retrieved 23 November 2016.

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