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Parascatonomus (Necramator) semicupreus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Mathematics, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Tibanga, Iligan City 9200, Philippines. & Premier Research Institute of Science and Mathematics, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology. Andres Bonifacio Avenue, Tibanga, 9200 Iligan City, Philippines.
Description
Parascatonomus (Necramator) semicupreus (Harold, 1877)
Onthophagus semicupreus Harold, 1877: 81; Boucomont 1924a: 670.
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) semicupreus: Balthasar 1963b: 519.
Onthophagus (Parascatonomus) semicupreus: Ochi et al. 2008: 220; Krikken & Huijbregts 2009: 48.
Parascatonomus (Necramator) semicupreus: Ueda et al. 2022: 181.
Type locality. “ Borneo, Sarawak.”
Distribution in the Philippines. Luzon (Palawan) (Boucomont 1914, 1924a; Balthasar 1963b; Ochi et al. 2008; Krikken & Huijbregts 2009).
Overall distribution. The Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia (Ueda et al. 2022).
Notes
Published as part of Magallanes, Joriemar G., Nuñeza, Olga M. & Mondejar, Eddie P., 2026, First in 109 years: Catalogue of scarab beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of the Philippines, pp. 1-148 in Zootaxa 5746 (1) on page 120, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5746.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19166474
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Additional details
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Harold
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Parascatonomus
- Species
- semicupreus
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Parascatonomus (Necramator) semicupreus (Harold, 1877) sec. Magallanes, Nuñeza & Mondejar, 2026
References
- Harold, E. von. (1877) Enumeration des Lamellicorn coprophages rapportes de l'Archipel Malais, de la Nouvelle-Guinee et de l'Australie boreale par M. M. J. Doria, O. Beccari et L. M. D'Albertis. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 10, 38-110.
- Boucomont, A. (1924 a) Les Onthophagus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) des Iles Philippines. The Philippine Journal of Science, 24, 669-681.
- Balthasar, V. (1963 b) Monographie der Scarabaeidae und Aphodidae der palaearktischen und orientalischen Region. Band 2. Coprinae (Onitini, Oniticellini, Onthophagini). Tschechoslowakische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Prag, 627 pp.
- Ochi, T., Kon, M. & Barclay, M. V. L. (2008) A review of the subgenus Parascatonomus of the genus Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of Borneo. Taichius, Special publication of the Japan Coleopterological Society, 2, 191-234.
- Huijbregts, J. & Krikken, J. (2009) A remarkable new two-horned species of Onthophagus from Borneo (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Malayan Nature Journal, 61, 1-9.
- Ueda, A., Dwibadra, D., Kahono, S., Sugiarto, Ochi, T. & Kon, M. (2022) Atlas of dung beetles collected in the Sungai Wain Protection Forest and its surroundings in the lowlands of Borneo. Bulletin of Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kyushu Research Center, 21 (2), 165-192.
- Boucomont, A. (1914) Les Coprophages de l'Archipel Malais (Coleopt.). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 83, 238-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/21686351.1914.12279408