Onthophagus Latreille 1802 (scarab beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième 1-467

Parent taxon: Onthophagini according to S. Tarasov et al. 2016

See also Bouchard et al. 2011, Britton 1960, Krell 2000, Philips 2016, Statz 1952 and Zhang 1989

Sister taxon: Phalops

Subtaxa: Onthophagus arvernus Onthophagus bisontinus Onthophagus crassus Onthophagus everestae Onthophagus fracticornis Onthophagus janus Onthophagus lenzii Onthophagus ovatulus Onthophagus pilauco Onthophagus prodromus Onthophagus statzi Onthophagus taurus

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Ecology:

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Chile (1 collection), Japan (7), the United Kingdom (7), United States (2: California, Virginia)

• Pliocene of Japan (3)

• Miocene of China (1), Germany (2)

• Oligocene of France (1), Germany (1)

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 26 collections including 33 occurrences

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