Onitis assamensis

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Onitis assamensis
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Male
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Female
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Onitis
Species:
O. assamensis
Binomial name
Onitis assamensis
Biswas, 1980

Onitis assamensis, is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. [1] It is only known from its type locality Kaziranga National Park in Assam state of India. [2] The specimen was first collected in Kaziranga by A. K. Ghosh in 1971 and described by S Biswas in 1979. [1]

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Etymology

Named after the state Assam which is type locality where type specimen was collected. [1]

Habitat

Decaying Rhinoceros dung. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Biswas, S. (1979). "The scarab beetles Coleoptera scarabaeidae of North India 2. 3 new species and 2 new records from India". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 76: 338–341.
  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 .


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