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Onthophagus

Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae

Taxonomy
Onthophagus was named by Latreille (1802). It is extant. It is the type genus of Onthophagidae.

It was assigned to Coprini by Statz (1952); to Scarabaeidae by Zhang (1989); to Scarabaeinae by Britton (1960), Krell (2000); and to Onthophagini by Bouchard et al. (2011), Tarasov et al. (2016), Philips (2016).

Species
O. arvernus, O. bisontinus, O. crassus, O. everestae, O. fracticornis, O. janus, O. lenzii, O. ovatulus, O. pilauco, O. prodromus, O. statzi (syn. O. muelleri), O. taurus
Entered
by E. Leckey (authorized by D. Smith) on 2006-03-03; modified by M. Clapham on 2015-09-26

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1802Onthophagus Latreille p. 141
1952Onthophagus Statz p. 8
1960Onthophagus Britton p. 36
1989Onthophagus Zhang p. 151
2000Onthophagus Krell p. 880
2011Onthophagus Bouchard et al. p. 244
2016Onthophagus Philips
2016Onthophagus Tarasov et al. p. 20

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
—AltocrustaceaRegier et al. 2010
superclassAllotriocarida
—Athalassocarida
—LabiocaridaSchwentner et al. 2017
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
—Cercofilata
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
RankNameAuthor
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
—Holometabola
—Aparaglossata
—Neuropteriformia
—Coleopterida
orderColeoptera
—Mesocoleoptera
—Metacoleoptera
suborderPolyphagaEmery 1886
infraorderStaphyliniformia
superfamilyScarabaeoidea
familyScarabaeidae()
subfamilyScarabaeinae
tribeOnthophagini()
genusOnthophagus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Onthophagus Latreille 1802
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†Onthophagus arvernus Piton and Théobald 1939
†Onthophagus crassus Heer 1862
†Onthophagus everestae Pierce 1946
Onthophagus fracticornis Preyssler 1790
Onthophagus janus Panzer 1794
Onthophagus lenzii Harold 1874
†Onthophagus ovatulus Heer 1847
†Onthophagus pilauco Tello et al. 2021
†Onthophagus prodromus Heer 1862
†Onthophagus statzi Krell 1990
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Invalid names: Onthophagus muelleri Statz 1952 [replaced]
Onthophagus taurus Schreber 1759
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Rancholabrean or 56.00000 to 0.01400 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.07 Ma

Collections (26 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 48.07United Kingdom (England) O. sp. (126591)
Chattian27.3 - 23.04Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) O. muelleri (122010)
Late/Upper Oligocene27.3 - 23.04France (Puy-de-Dome) O. arvernus (155204)
Burdigalian20.45 - 15.98China (Shandong) O. sp. (128552)
Sarmatian12.8 - 11.63Germany (Baden-Württemberg) O. ovatulus (115304) O. prodromus, O. crassus, O. bisontinus (117252)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6Japan O. sp. (165737)
Piacenzian3.6 - 2.58Japan O. sp. (165738 165742)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774Japan O. sp. (153617)
Chibanian0.774 - 0.129Japan (Kumamoto) O. sp. (164901)
Chibanian0.774 - 0.129Japan O. sp. (165704)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Japan (Kumamoto) O. sp. (165716)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129United Kingdom O. fracticornis (168267 168272) O. sp. (168269 168271 168273) O. sp., O. fracticornis (168264) O. taurus, O. fracticornis (168266)
Lujanian0.4 - 0.0117Chile (Los Lagos) O. pilauco (195456)
Rancholabrean0.21 - 0.014USA (California) O. sp., O. everestae (152006)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Virginia) O. sp., O. janus (103991)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Japan O. sp. (166083) O. sp., O. lenzii (166084) O. spp. (166082)