Onitis brahma Lansberge 1875
Authors/Creators
- 1. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Srirampura, Jakkur P. O., Bangalore 560064, Karnataka, India.
Description
Onitis brahma Lansberge, 1875
Figs 5B, 17
Onitisbrahma Lansberge, 1875: 142 (original description).
Onitisbrahma – Preudhomme De Borre 1881: 41 (catalogue). — Arrow 1931: 399 (keys, description). — Janssens 1937: 74 (revision). — Balthasar 1963: 45 (monograph). — Chandra 2000: 360 (distribution). — Chandra & Ahirwar 2005: 149 (distribution); 2007: 286 (distribution). — Sewak 2009b: 61 (distribution, diagnosis). — Chandra et al. 2011: 66 (distribution). — Chandra & Gupta 2012b: 817 (distribution). — Karimbumkara & Rajan 2013: 174 (distribution). — Gupta et al. 2014: 230 (distribution); 2015: 1034 (key, distribution, description). — Schoolmeesters 2022 (online catalogue).
Differential diagnosis
Onitisbrahma belongs to Group VII and is closer to O. crassus and O. castaneus in having a hairy pygidium and punctured pronotum but differs from both in having an interrupted frontal carina and strongly excised clypeus.
Material examined
Holotype
INDIA • ♂; “ Mniszech, Ex-Musaeo Van Lansberge, Muséum Paris ex Coll. R. Oberthür 1952, A. Janssens vid., 1936: Onitisbrahma Lansb.”, MNHN EC4809.
Additional material (4 specimens)
INDIA • ♂, ♀; Dharwar, Bombay, “ H. Swale. 1913–117”, BMNH (E) 1237157, BMNH (E) 1237158 • ♂, ♀; Nerbuda Survey, Barra, Bewa State, 8 Mar. 1927; 2700 ft a.s.l.; ZSIM.
Description
MEASUREMENTS (in mm). TL=21–26; BW=11–13.5.
Male
Black or dark brown; clypeus shining, not closely granulate; clypeal margin strongly reflexed, excised in the middle; head finely granulate; frontal carina interrupted in the middle; pronotum shining, pronotum rugose anteriorly and punctured behind; elytra deeply striate, intervals convex, unpunctured, not shining; pygidium sparingly punctured; scanty hairs on pygidium long; metasternum with close reddish hairs, a raised longitudinal ridge in the middle; fore legs elongate, femur bears a blunt anterior process near the extremity, tibia slender, strongly curved towards the tip, armed with four external teeth, a very sharp tooth beneath, before the middle and a long incurved terminal process; mesofemur with a sharp tooth near the middle of its lower edge; hind femur with a sharp outwardly directed tooth at its upper edge near the base and a blunt lobe before middle of the lower edge.
Female
Clypeus more densely granular, not shining; pronotum closely rugose on major part.
Distribution
India: Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu (Chandra 2000; Chandra & Ahirwar 2005, 2007; Sewak 2009b; Chandra & Gupta 2012b; Karimbumkara & Rajan 2013; Gupta et al. 2014, 2015; Schoolmeesters 2022).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH , MNHN , ZSIM
- Material sample ID
- (E) 1237157, (E) 1237158 , EC4809
- Event date
- 1927-03-08
- Verbatim event date
- 1927-03-08
- Scientific name authorship
- Lansberge
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Onitis
- Species
- brahma
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Onitis brahma Lansberge, 1875 sec. Karimbumkara & Priyadarsanan, 2024
References
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