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Onitis

{{Short description|Genus of beetles}}

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| taxon = Onitis

| authority = Fabricius, 1798

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Onitis is a genus of Scarabaeidae or scarab beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea[https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt ITIS][http://nomen.at/Onitis Nomen.at - animals and plants][http://data.gbif.org/species/browse/taxon/13143053 GBIF] and typical of the tribe Onitini. This genus is mainly distributed in Africa, Palaearctic and Oriental region with more than 140 species from the Afrotropical region. All species of this genus are tunnellers meaning they build tunnel under the dung in the soil and bring dung in the tunnel to lay eggs.

Species

Species within this genus include:.[http://www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/search/all/key/onitis/match/1 Catalogue of life]{{Cite journal|last1=Karimbumkara |first1=Seena N.|last2=Priyadarsanan|first2=Dharma R.|date=2024|title=Study on the genus Onitis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of the Indian Subcontinent, with three new species from India.|url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1442-9993.1988.tb00991.x|journal=European Journal of Taxonomy|language=en|issue=4|pages=1–61|doi=10.5852/ejt.2024.956.2657|doi-access=free|bibcode=2024EJTax.956....1K }}{{Cite journal|last=Biswas|first=S.|date=1979|title= The scarab beetles Coleoptera scarabaeidae of North India 2. 3 new species and 2 new records from India. |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/151549|journal=Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society |language=en|volume=76|pages=338–341}}{{Cite journal|last=Cambefort |first=Yves|date=1988|title=Deux nouveaux Onitis d'Asie tropicale [Col. Scarabaeidae]|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/bsef_0037-928x_1987_num_92_5_17495|journal=Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France|language=fr|volume=92|issue=5–6|pages=189–192|doi=10.3406/bsef.1987.17495 }}{{Cite journal|last=Lansberge |first=G. Van|date=1875|title=Monographie des Onitides. |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/37736|journal=Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique |language=fr|volume=18|pages=142–144 }}{{cite journal| vauthors=((David Sharp)) | date= 1875 | title=Descriptions of some new genera and species of Scarabaeidae from tropical Asia and Malasia.| publisher=München, Carl Merhoff's Verlag | volume=3 | issue=XIV| journal=Coleopterologische Hefte|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25118848#page/555/mode/1up}}{{Cite book|last=Arrow|first=Gilbert J. |date=1931|title=The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, Coleoptera Lamellicornia Part III, (Coprinae).|publisher= Taylor & Francis, London.|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62482/page/n9/mode/2up}}{{cite journal | vauthors=((Gillet, Joseph J. E.)) | journal=Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique | title=Coprides nouveaux de la région orientale et remarques synonymiques | volume=55 | pages=313–314 | publisher=Société entomologique de Belgique | date= 1911 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/31126}}{{cite book| last1=Kollar|first1=Vincenz |last2=Redtenbacher|first2=Ludwig| chapter=Aufzählung und Beschreibung der von Freiherrn Carl v. Hügel auf seiner Reise durch Kaschmir und das Himaleyagebirge gesammelten Insecten|editor-last=Hügel|editor-first=Carl Freiherrn von| title=Kaschmir und das Reich der Siek| publisher=Hallberger'sche Verlagshandlung| location=Stuttgart|year=1848|volume=4(2)|pages=393–564 [517]| chapter-url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52443641}}{{cite book | last=Wulfen | first=Xaver | title=Descriptiones quorumdam Capensium insectorum | publisher=W. Walther | publication-place=Erlangae | date=1786 | doi=10.5962/bhl.title.66070 | doi-access=free | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/itempdf/132962 | access-date=2025-01-28 | page=}}{{cite journal | last=Felsche |first=Carl von|journal=Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift | title=Coprophage Scarabaeiden | volume=1907 | pages=273–296 | publisher=Nicolai’sche Verlags-Buchandlung | date= 1907 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/41754}}

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File:Onitis keniensis Gillet, 1933 male (3723521881) (2).jpg|Onitis keniensis

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Category:Scarabaeidae

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