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Onthophagus (Colobonthophagus) armatus Blanchard 1853

  • 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

3.2.24 Onthophagus (Colobonthophagus) armatus Blanchard, 1853

Onthophagus armatus Blanchard, 1853, Voy. Pole Sud.: 98, Tf. 7, Fg. 9, 10 (MNHN).

Onthophagus luzonicus Lansberge, 1883, Notes Leyd. Mus., 5: 51; Boucomont, 1914b, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 83: 305 (syn.).

Onthophagus pseudoarmatus Balthasar, 1944, Sbornik Ent. Odd. Nár. Mus. Praze, 21–22: 93 (NMPC).

Material examined. [AFCD] China, Hong Kong, Chek Keng, 3♂ 2♀, 2015.VIII.25, coll. M.H. Leung.

[NMPC] China, Kwangtseh-Fukien, 1♀, 1937.X.9, coll. L. Klapperich (Type of Onthophagus pseudoarmatus Balthasar, 1944); China, Kwangtseh-Fukien, 1♂, 1937.X.30, coll. L. Klapperich (Type of Onthophagus pseudoarmatus Balthasar, 1944).

[TOCO] China, Taiwan, Lan-yu Is. (Orchid Is.), 1♂ 1♀, 1986.IV.18–22, coll. M. Ohara.

[BMNH] Java, Buitenzorg, 1♂, 1926-97, coll. V. De Poll; Deccan, Ahmadnagar, 1♂ 2♀, 1932, coll. J.E.M. Boyd. China, Foochow, 2♂ 3♀, 1930.VIII.18, coll. M.S. Yang (T. Branco 1988 Det. Onthophagus pseudoarmatus Balthasar, 1944). China, Foochow, 4♂ 5♀; Philipp. Is., Baker, Luzou, Mt. Makiling, 1919-2, 1♂ 1♀, C.F. Baker (Original Det. Onthophagus luzonicus Lansberge, 1883).

[MNHN] Borneo, 1♂ (Lectotype); Borneo, 1♀ (Cotype); Los Banos, 3♂ 4♀, coll. P.I. Baker; Kiang-Si, 5♂ 7♀, 1869.?.?, coll. A. David; Tonkin Central Region de Tuyen-Quan, et de Dong-Chau, 1♂ 2♀, 1901.?.?, coll. A. Weiss.

Distribution. China (Hong Kong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Taiwan), India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines.

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 249, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201830, http://zenodo.org/record/4617705

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AFCD , MNHN , TOCO
Event date
1937-10-30 , 1986-04-18 , 2015-08-25
Verbatim event date
1937-10-30 , 1986-04-18/22 , 2015-08-25
Scientific name authorship
Blanchard
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Onthophagus
Species
armatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Onthophagus (Colobonthophagus) armatus Blanchard, 1853 sec. Cheung, Bai, Leung, Lee, Chan & Yang, 2018

References

  • Blanchard, C. E. 1853. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie, sur les corvettes " l'Astrolabe " et " la Zelee " sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. Description des insectes. Gide, Paris, 4: 1 - 422.
  • Lansberge, J. W. v. 1883. Revision des Onthophagus de l'archipel Indo-Neerlandais, avec description des especes nouvelles. Notes from the Leyden Museum, 5: 41 - 82.
  • Boucomont, A. 1914 b. Les Coprophages de l'Archipel Malais. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 83: 238 - 350.
  • Balthasar, V. 1944. Ctyri nove druhy rodu Onthophagus Latr. Vier neue Arten der Gattung Onthophagus Latr. Sbornik Entomologickeho Oddeleni Zemskeho Musea v Praze, 21 - 22 [1943 - 1944]: 90 - 94.