Onitis crenatus

Onitis crenatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Superfamily:	Cucujoidea
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Subfamily:	Scarabaeinae
Genus:	Onitis
Species:	O. crenatus
Binomial name
	Onitis crenatus; Reiche, 1847
Synonyms
	Onitis herbsti Roth, 1851[1];

Onitis crenatus, is a species of dung beetle found in Afro-Asian countries.[2]

Description

Male has an average length of about 21 mm. Body bronze-black, shiny. Clypeus with round lateral margin and emarginate apex. Clypeal carina short. Clypeus weakly rugosely punctate. Gena not prominent. Pronotum bordered only anteriorly and laterally and punctured. Elytra with shallow striae. Elytral lateral carina strongly and regularly crenate. Pygidium with weak basal carina. Female is about 17 to 20 mm in length. Clypeus with straight lateral margins.[3]

References

"Onitis crenatus Reiche, 1847". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
Houston, W. W. K. (1986). "Exocrine Glands in the Forelegs of Dung Beetles in the Genus Onitis F. (coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)". Australian Journal of Entomology. 25 (2): 161–169. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1986.tb01096.x. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
"Identification of the dung beetles Onitis crenatus Reiche (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Ethiopia and O. crenatus sensu Boheman from southern Africa". j. ent. Soc. sth. Afr. 1983 Vol. 46,lVo. 2,PP. 249-256. Retrieved 2021-07-22.

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[1] "Onitis crenatus Reiche, 1847". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-07-23.

[2] Houston, W. W. K. (1986). "Exocrine Glands in the Forelegs of Dung Beetles in the Genus Onitis F. (coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)". Australian Journal of Entomology. 25 (2): 161–169. doi:10.1111/j.1440-6055.1986.tb01096.x. Retrieved 2021-07-23.

[3] "Identification of the dung beetles Onitis crenatus Reiche (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Ethiopia and O. crenatus sensu Boheman from southern Africa". j. ent. Soc. sth. Afr. 1983 Vol. 46,lVo. 2,PP. 249-256. Retrieved 2021-07-22.