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Omorgus (Omorgus) rimulosus Kalawate 2023

Creators

  • 1. Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, PO Box 413, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.
  • 2. Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Vidhya Nagar, Sector- 29, P. C. N. T. (PO), Rawet Road, Akurdi, Pune, Maharashtra 411044, India. aparna _ ent @ yahoo. co. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6595 - 6749

Description

Omorgus (Omorgus) rimulosus (Haaf, 1957)

(Figs 7–9, 14–1)

Trox rimulosus Haaf, 1957: 693 (original distribution).

Trox (Omorgus) rimulosus: Scholtz (1982): 13 (catalogue).

Omorgus (Afromorgus) rimulosus: Zidek (2013): 16, 21 (checklist); Zidek (2017): 107, 113 (checklist); Kalawate & Patole (2018): 11990 (country records).

Type locality: “Coromandel” [=southeastern coast of the Indian subcontinent, Tamil Nadu State, India].

Type depository. Holotype (male) at NHMB.

Distribution: India (Tamil Nadu) (Haaf 1957; Kalifate & Patole 2018).

Comment: Omorgus (O.) rimulosus (Haaf, 1957) is known only from the holotype. It was previously classified in the subgenus Afromorgus. However, after examination of its holotype we found that it belongs to the nominotypical subgenus Omorgus.

Notes

Published as part of Strümpher, Werner P. & Kalawate, Aparna S., 2023, Omorgus (Omorgus) khandesh (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Trogidae), a new species from India, along with an annotated catalogue of the Oriental and Palearctic species of the subgenus Omorgus Erichson, 1847, pp. 501-522 in Zootaxa 5231 (5) on pages 514-517, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7609508

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/14216F6BFF90A121FF2DF9059717C703

Cites
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7609516 (DOI)
Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.7609522 (DOI)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/7609508 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/E8181713FF9DA131FFBAFFD19662C642 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/22143C8D-9639-4B87-8D8C-C3BB421534A1 (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/14216F6BFF90A121FF2DF9059717C703 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/209281819 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/53658/taxon/14216F6BFF90A121FF2DF9059717C703.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMB
Family
Trogidae
Genus
Omorgus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Kalawate
Species
rimulosus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Omorgus (Omorgus) rimulosus Kalawate, 2023 sec. Strümpher & Kalawate, 2023

References

  • Haaf, E. (1957) Drei neue Trox - Arten (Col. Scarab). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey, 8, 692 - 695.
  • Scholtz, C. H. (1982) Catalogue of world Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Entomology Memoir, 54, 1 - 27.
  • Zidek, J. (2013) Checklist and bibliography of the Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Insecta Mundi, 314, 1 - 38.
  • Zidek, J. (2017) Updated checklist and bibliography of family Trogidae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Folia Heyrovskyana, Series A, 25 (1), 93 - 127.
  • Kalawate, A. S. & Patole, S. S. (2018) First record of a trogid beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Trogidae) from the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa, 10 (7), 11988 - 11991. https: // doi. org / 10.11609 / jott. 3951.10.7.11988 - 11991
  • Arrow, G. J. (1927) A note on the coleopterous genus Trox, with descriptions of a few new Asiatic species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 19 (112), 465 - 468. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932708655516