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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2015-06-19
Page range: 145–147
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Oniticellus (Liatongus) boucomonti Balthasar, 1932 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae: Oniticellini)—clarification of its taxonomic status by lectotype designation 

Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 31, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Viničná 7, CZ-128 43 Praha 2, Czech Republic.
Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 31, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic. Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Coleoptera Scarabaeidae Scarabaeinae Oniticellini

Abstract

The dung beetle Oniticellus (Liatongus) boucomonti Balthasar, 1932 was described according to an unknown number of specimens labelled “Giufu-Shan, Szechuan” [= Jinfo Shan, ca. 29°04N, 107°18E, Chongqing province, China]. Balthasar evidently did not dissect these specimens and simply assumed that specimens with a small horn on vertex were males and specimens without such horn but with two elevated transversal carinae on head were the females of the same species (Balthasar 1932, 1935).