Onitis crassus
{{short description|Species of beetle}}
{{Speciesbox
| genus = Onitis
| species = crassus
| synonyms = Onitis vischnu Preudhomme de Borre 1881
}}
Onitis crassus is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae described by David Sharp based on a specimen collected in India.{{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}}
Description
Black, not very shining. Length is 15.5–21{{nbsp}}mm, and breadth is 9–10.5{{nbsp}}mm.{{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}}
Distribution
India (Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh), Nepal, Pakistan{{Cite journal|last=Karimbumkara |first=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=https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2657/12287|journal=European Journal of Taxonomy|language=en|volume=956|issue=4|pages=1–61|doi=10.5852/ejt.2024.956.2657|doi-access=free}}
Habitat
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