Onitis excavatus
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Onitis excavatus is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae described using male specimen collected by E. T. Atkinson collected from Tenasserim in Myanmar.{{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}}
Description
Black and shining. Length is 25{{nbsp}}mm, and breadth is 13{{nbsp}}mm.
Distribution
India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh), China, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam{{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}}
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