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Issue: Vol. 5493 No. 2: 9 Aug. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-08-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5493.2.7
Page range: 186-194
Abstract views: 6
PDF downloaded: 1

A new and unusually ornate southern African dung beetle species in d’Orbigny’s Onthophagus Group 18 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Onthophagini)

Department of Zoology and Entomology; University of Pretoria; Private Bag X20; 0028 Hatfield; South Africa
Department of Zoology and Entomology; University of Pretoria; Private Bag X20; 0028 Hatfield; South Africa
Coleoptera Food specialists millipede carcass sandy habitat new subgroup association

Abstract

Onthophagus pragtig Deschodt, new species is described and illustrated from South Africa. Its known collection localities are shown. We also briefly describe and illustrate three distinct subgroups in the18th Onthophagus group of d’Orbigny (1913) and further provide a checklist of the known species in this group while dividing them into these subgroups where known.

 

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