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Bolboceras nigricans Westwood 1848

Description

Bolboceras nigricans Westwood, 1848

Bolboceras nigricans Westwood, 1848: 354.

Material examined. India: Madhya Pradesh, Seoni, Pench Tiger Reserve, 21.vi.2001, collected K. Chandra, 1 specimen (NZSI).

Distribution. India: Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad), Madhya Pradesh (Jabalpur, Seoni), Maharashtra (Mumbai), Karnataka (Belgaum), Tamil Nadu (Madurai, Coimbatore, Trichinopoly, Annamalai Hills), Pondicherry, and North Bengal (Krikken, 2013a, this paper). Elsewhere: Myanmar and Tanzania, but African records should be verified by additional material (Krikken, 2013a).

Remark. New locality record from Seoni, Pench Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh.

Notes

Published as part of Gupta, Devanshu, Chandra, Kailash, Ghosh, Joyjit & Das, Priyanka, 2020, A new species and new records of the genus Bolboceras Kirby, 1819 (Coleoptera Scarabaeoidea: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae) from India, pp. 277-282 in Zootaxa 4786 (2) on pages 279-280, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4786.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3874789

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NZSI
Event date
2001-06-21
Verbatim event date
2001-06-21
Scientific name authorship
Westwood
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Bolboceratidae
Genus
Bolboceras
Species
nigricans
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bolboceras nigricans Westwood, 1848 sec. Gupta, Chandra, Ghosh & Das, 2020

References

  • Krikken, J. (2013 a) Oriental Bolboceras: introduction to the genus and taxonomy of the nigricans group of species (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae: Bolboceratinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 156, 35 - 56. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 22119434 - 00002018