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Onthophagus
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) and Krell (2000); and to Onthophagini by Bouchard et al. (2011), Tarasov et al. (2016) and Philips (2016).
It was assigned to Coprini by Statz (1952); to Scarabaeidae by Zhang (1989); to Scarabaeinae by Britton (1960) and Krell (2000); and to Onthophagini by Bouchard et al. (2011), Tarasov et al. (2016) and Philips (2016).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1802 | Onthophagus Latreille p. 141 |
| 1952 | Onthophagus Statz p. 8 |
| 1960 | Onthophagus Britton p. 36 |
| 1989 | Onthophagus Zhang p. 151 |
| 2000 | Onthophagus Krell p. 880 |
| 2011 | Onthophagus Bouchard et al. p. 244 |
| 2016 | Onthophagus Philips |
| 2016 | Onthophagus Tarasov et al. p. 20 |
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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 bisontinus Heer 1862
†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 taurus Schreber 1759
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available