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Onthophagus zebu Boucomont 1921
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
Onthophagus (sensu lato) zebu Boucomont, 1921
Onthophagus zebu Boucomont, 1921: 89; Boucomont 1924a: 677.
Onthophagus (Onthophagus) zebu: Balthasar, 1963b: 594; Krajčík 2006: 142;
Onthophagus zebu: Krikken & Huijbregts 2011: 212.
Type locality. “ Iles Philippines: Mindanao.”
Distribution in the Philippines. Mindanao (Bukidnon, Lanao del Norte, and Zamboanga del Norte) (Boucomont 1921, 1924a; Krikken & Huijbregts 2011).
Overall distribution. Endemic species to the Philippines.
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 117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5746.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19166474
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Boucomont
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Scarabaeidae
- Genus
- Onthophagus
- Species
- zebu
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Onthophagus zebu Boucomont, 1921 sec. Magallanes, Nuñeza & Mondejar, 2026
References
- Boucomont, A. (1921) Description de Coprophages (Col.) des Iles Philippines et de Borneo. Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France, 26 (7), 88-92. https://doi.org/10.3406/bsef.1921.26754
- 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.
- Krajcik, M. (2006) Checklist of Scarabaeoidea of the World. 1. Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Animma. x Supplement, 3, 1-189.
- Huijbregts, J. & Krikken, J. (2011) Taxonomy of Onthophagus javanensis and its closest relatives in Sundaland (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 154 (1), 33-59. https://doi.org/10.1163/22119434-900000307