Onthophagus

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.

Onthophagus
Onthophagus nuchicornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Tribe: Onthophagini
Genus: Onthophagus
Latreille, 1802 [1]
Gazella scarab (Onthophagus gazella) males; note variation in horn size

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, Strandius, and Euonthophagus) are now widely recognized as genera.[6]

Selected species
  • Onthophagus (Amphionthophagus) melitaeus (Fabricius, 1798)
  • Onthophagus (Furconthophagus) furcatus (Fabricius, 1781)
  • Onthophagus (Onthophagus) illyricus (Scopoli, 1763)
  • Onthophagus (Onthophagus) taurus (Schreber, 1759)
  • Onthophagus (Onthophagus) binodis (Thunberg, 1818)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) albarracinus (Baraud, 1979)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) angorensis (Petrovitz, 1963)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) baraudi (Nicolas, 1964)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) coenobita (Herbst, 1783)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) cruciatus (Ménetriés, 1832)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) dellacasai (Pittino & Mariani, 1981)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) excisus (Reiche & Saulcy, 1856)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) fissicornis (Steven, 1809)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) fracticornis (Preyssler, 1790)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) gazella (Fabricius, 1787)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) gibbulus (Pallas, 1781)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) grossepunctatus (Reitter, 1905)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) joannae (Goljan, 1953)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) kindermanni (Harold, 1877)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) kolenatii (Reitter, 1893)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) latigena (d'Orbigni, 1897)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) lemur (Fabricius, 1781)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) leucostigma (Steven, 1811)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) lucidus (Sturm, 1800)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) macedonicus (Miksic, 1959)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) marginalis (Gebler, 1817)
    • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) marginalis andalusicus (Waltl, 1835)
    • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) marginalis marginalis (Gebler, 1817)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) massai (Baraud, 1975)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) merdarius (Chevrolat, 1865)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) nuchicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) opacicollis (Reitter, 1893)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) ovatus (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) panici (Petrovitz, 1964)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) ponticus (Harold, 1883)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) ruficapillus (Brullé, 1832)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) semicornis (Panzer, 1798)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) sericatus (Reitter, 1893)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) similis (Scriba, 1790)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) stylocerus (Graëlls, 1851)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) suturellus (Brullé, 1832)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) tesquorum (Semenov-Tian-Shanskii & Medvedev, 1927)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) trigibber (Reitter, 1893)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) vacca (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) verticicornis (Laicharting, 1781)
  • Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) vitulus (Fabricius, 1776)
  • Onthophagus (Relictonthophagus) emarginatus (Mulsant & Godart, 1842)
  • Onthophagus (Relictonthophagus) nigellus (Illiger, 1803)
  • Onthophagus (Relictonthophagus) punctatus (Illiger, 1803)
  • Onthophagus (Trichonthophagus) hirtus (Illiger, 1803)
  • Onthophagus (Trichonthophagus) maki (Illiger, 1803)
  • Onthophagus nigricornis
  • Onthophagus obliquus
  • Onthophagus shimba

See also

References
  1. 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
  5. "Onthophagus - Wikispecies". species.wikimedia.org. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  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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