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Onitis subopacus Arrow 1931

  • 1. Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, Hong Kong SAR Government, Hong Kong SAR, China
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China These authors contributed equally to this work Corresponding author, E-mail: baim @ ioz. ac. cn

Description

3.2.19 Onitis subopacus Arrow, 1931

Onitis philemon Lansberge, 1875, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., 18: 133 (BMNH (nec Fabricius 1801); Arrow, 1931, Fauna Brit. India, Lamell., 3: 395 (Junior homonym of Onitis philemon Fabricius, 1801).

Onitis subopacus Arrow, 1931, Fauna Brit. India, Lamell., 3: 395 (BMNH) (n. name for Onitis philemon Lansberge, 1875 preoccupied).

Materials examined: [AFCD] China, Hong Kong, Tai Mo Shan, 1♀, 2015.IX.17, coll. M.H. Leung; Unknown, 1♀, 2010.VII.02, coll. K.H. Cheung.

[IZAS] China, Yunnan, Jingdong, 1200 m, 3♂ 6♀, 1957.III.15; Yunnan, Mengla, Jinping, 500 m, 2♂ 3♀, 1956. V.2, coll. Keren Huang; Yunnan, Cheli, 620m, 3♂ 4♀, 1957.IV.8, coll. Shuyong Wang; Yunnan, Damengla, 700 m, 3♂ 1♀, 1957.IV.10, coll. Fuji Pu.

[BMNH] Ceylon, Haldummulle, Kalupahani, 1♂, 1904-171 (Type); India, 1916.?.?, 1♂, coll. Pusa; Bengal, Darjiling, Singla, 1500 ft., 1♀, 1930. VI.

Distribution. China (Hong Kong, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan), Myanmar, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand.

Remarks. The species is firstly recorded in Hong Kong, China.

Notes

Published as part of Cheung, Kahong, Bai, Ming, Leung, Manhin, Lee, Yingming, Chan, Kinfung & Yang, Xingke, 2018, Scarabaeinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Hong Kong, pp. 233-267 in Zoological Systematics 43 (3) on page 246, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201830, http://zenodo.org/record/4617705

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AFCD , BMNH , IZAS , VI
Event date
1957-03-15 , 1957-04-08 , 1957-04-10 , 2010-07-02 , 2015-09-17
Verbatim event date
1957-03-15 , 1957-04-08 , 1957-04-10 , 2010-07-02 , 2015-09-17
Scientific name authorship
Arrow
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Onitis
Species
subopacus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Onitis subopacus Arrow, 1931 sec. Cheung, Bai, Leung, Lee, Chan & Yang, 2018

References

  • Arrow, G. J. 1931. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera Lamellicornia Part III (Coprinae). Taylor and Francis, London. 428 pp.
  • Lansberge, J. W. v. 1875. Monographie des Onitides. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 18: 5 - 148.
  • Fabricius, J. C. 1801. Systema eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus I. Bibliopoli academici novi, Kiliae. 506 pp.