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Onthophagus

{{short description|Genus of beetles}}

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| image = Onthophagus nuchicornis 02.JPG

| image_caption = Onthophagus nuchicornis

| taxon = Onthophagus

| authority = Latreille, 1802 {{cite journal |author=Sergey I. Tarasov & Oleg N. Kabakov |year=2010 |title=Two new species of Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Indochina, with a discussion of some problems with the classification of Serrophorus and similar subgenera |journal=Zootaxa |volume=2344 |pages=17–28 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2344.1.2 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02344p028f.pdf }}

| synonyms = {{Taxon list

| Macropocopris | Arrow, 1920

| Pauronthophagus | Blackwelder, 1844

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file:Onthophagus gazella male 2 sjh.jpg) males; note variation in horn size]]

Onthophagus is a genus of dung beetles in the Onthophagini tribe of the wider scarab beetle family, Scarabaeidae.{{ITIS|taxon=Onthophagus |id=187517}} It is the most species-rich and widespread genus in the subfamily Scarabaeinae (the 'true' dung beetles), with a global distribution.

Etymology

The Genus name derives from the Greek onthos, meaning dung, and {{lang|grc-Latn|phagos}}, meaning eater.{{cite web |url= http://bugguide.net/node/view/3670 |title=Genus Onthophagus |work=BugGuide |publisher=John VanDyk |access-date=14 June 2014}}

Taxonomy

{{main|List of Onthophagus species}}

This genus includes around 30 subgenera and over 2,200 species. Some of the former subgenera of Onthophagus (including Proagoderus, Diastellopalpus, Digitonthophagus, and Euonthophagus) are now widely recognized as genera.{{cite journal|last1=Philips|first1=T. Keith|title=Phylogeny of the Oniticellini and Onthophagini dung beetles (Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from morphological evidence|journal=ZooKeys|date=11 April 2016|issue=579|pages=9–57|doi=10.3897/zookeys.579.6183|url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6183|access-date=23 November 2016|pmc=4829968|pmid=27110200|doi-access=free}}

=Subgenera=

These subgenera are in accordance with the Catalog of Life and the World Scarabaeidae Database (2023).

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Gallery

File:Proagoderus (=Onthophagus) nigricornis Fairmaire, 1887 male (3232050794).jpg|Onthophagus nigricornis

File:Onthophagus (Gonocyphus) obliquus (Olivier, 1789) male (4346956618).jpg|Onthophagus obliquus

File:Onthophagus (Gonocyphus) shimba Cambefort, 1980 Syn. Onthophagus obliquus shimba Cambefort, 1980 female (4346209433).jpg|Onthophagus shimba

See also

References

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{{Cite web| title=Onthophagus

| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1089294

| website=GBIF

| access-date=2023-09-23

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{{Cite web| title=Onthophagus Latreille, 1802

| url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/68DQ

| website=Catalogue of Life

| access-date=2023-09-23

}}

{{Cite journal| title=A first faunistic account on the Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) of the Nadia district, West Bengal, with a preliminary checklist from India.

| journal=Check List| volume=16| issue=2| date=2020| doi=10.15560/16.2.361

| last1=Kharel| first1=BP| last2=Schoolmeester| first2=P| last3=Sarkar| first3=SK

| doi-access=free}}

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External links

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  • {{Cite web

| access-date = 2018-03-06

| last1 = Ratcliffe

| first1 = Brett

| last2 = Jameson

| first2 = Mary Liz

| title = Generic Guide to New World Scarab Beetles

| url = http://www.museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Guide-introduction/Guideintro.html

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190330151517/http://www.museum.unl.edu/research/entomology/Guide/Guide-introduction/Guideintro.html

| archive-date = 2019-03-30

| url-status = dead

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Category:Scarabaeinae

Category:Scarabaeidae genera

Category:Taxa named by Pierre André Latreille