Onthophagus purpurascens

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scarabaeoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Staphyliniformia Superfamilia: Scarabaeoidea

Familia: Scarabaeidae
Subfamilia: Scarabaeinae
Tribus: Onthophagini
Genus: Onthophagus
Subgenus: Onthophagus (Onthophagus)
Species: Onthophagus purpurascens

Name

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) purpurascens Boucomont, 1914: 215 ZooBank

Synonymy

• Onthophagus (Onthophagus) khonmiinitnoi Masumoto, 1990: 48 (synonymized by Masumoto, Ochi & Higurashi, 2020: 38)
  • Type locality: Doi In thanon, Chiang Mal Prov., Northwest Thailand.
    • Holotype: TULE. male ♂. 01.V.1985. Legit K. Masumoto.

References

Primary references

• Boucomont, A. 1914. Onthophagus asiatiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova (3), 6(46): 210–243. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Masumoto, K. 1990i. Coprophagid-beetles from North Thailand (V). Entomological Review of Japan 45: 43–51. Reference page. 
• Masumoto, K., Ochi, T. & Higurashi, T. 2020a. Four new Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Onthophagini) species and a new synonym from Thailand. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 84: 29-38. Full article (PDF). Reference page.