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Current issue: Volume 25, No. 1 (2025)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.59893/abud.25(1).010
Ziani S., Telnov D. 2025. New and interesting records of Oniticellini and Onthophagini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Nepal (second contribution to the knowledge of Nepalese Scarabaeidae). Acta Biol. Univ. Daugavp., 2025(1): 165-177
Abstract
New and remarkable records of Nepalese Oniticellini Kolbe, 1905 and Onthophagini Streubel, 1846 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) are presented. For each species the general distribution is given. Ten species (Liatongus phanaeoides (Westwood, 1835), Caccobius (Caccophilus) himalayanus Jekel, 1872, Onthophagus (Onthophagiellus) crassicollis Boucomont, 1913, O. (s. str.) falsus Gillet, 1925, O. (Phanaeomorphus) procurvus Balthasar, 1935, O. (Serrophorus) atropolitus d′Orbigny, 1902, O. (s. l.) iyengari Arrow, 1931, O. (s. l.) mirandus Arrow, 1931, O. (s. l.) pacificus van Lansberge, 1885 and Parascatonomus (s. str.) sikkimpolitus Ochi, Kon & Barclay, 2017) are recorded from Nepal for the first time. Onthophagus (s. l.) iyengari Arrow, 1931 is recorded for the first time also from the Palaearctic ecozone. Furthermore, the evidences that the name Onthophagus armatus is available from Blanchard (1844) and not Blanchard (1853), as stated by the literature, are provided.
Keywords: Faunistic, new country records, coprophagous scarabs, Nepal.
* Corresponding author: Stefano Ziani. GeoL@b APS, Via Laderchi, 3, 48018 Faenza (RA), Italy. E-mail: stefanoziani@alice.it. ORCID: 0000-0002-5017-9251
Dmitry Telnov. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD London, United Kingdom. Coleopterological Research Center, Institute of Life Sciences and Technology, Daugavpils University, Vienības iela 13, LV-5401 Daugavpils, Latvia. Institute of Biology, University of Latvia, O. Vācieša iela 4, LV-1004 Rīga, Latvia. ORCID: 0000-0003-3412-0089
