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Onthophagus taruni Biswas & Chatterjee

Description

Synonymy of O. taruni Biswas & Chatterjee with O. vladimiri Frey

A comparison of O.vladimiri (O. fasciatus species group) collected from the South Western Ghats montane rain forests ecoregion with the type specimens of O. taruni deposited at Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta (ZSI) and O.vladimiri at National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic (NMP) revealed that O. taruni is a synonym of O. vladimiri.

Notes

Published as part of Sathiandran, Nithya & Sabu, Thomas K., 2012, New species, new synonym, and redescription of Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from the Western Ghats, India, pp. 53-58 in Zootaxa 3526 on page 57, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213360

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Biodiversity

Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Onthophagus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Biswas & Chatterjee
Species
taruni
Taxon rank
species