Onitis bhomorensis

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Onitis bhomorensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Polyphaga
Infraorder: Scarabaeiformia
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Onitis
Species:
O. bhomorensis
Binomial name
Onitis bhomorensis
Karimbumkara & Priyadarsanan, 2024

Onitis bhomorensis, is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is only known from its type locality near Tezpur in Assam state of India. [1]

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Etymology

Named after the Kolia Bhomora Setu across Brahmaputra – the widest river in India, near which the type specimen was collected. [1]

Habitat

River bed of Brahmaputra which is dry seasonal grasslands with dominant species is Ziziphus jujuba trees. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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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