Onthophagus ( Onthophagus ) andrewesi Arrow, 1931

Kharel, Bhim Prasad, Schoolmeester, Paul & Sarkar, Subhankar Kumar, 2020, A first faunistic account on the Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) of the Nadia district, West Bengal, with a preliminary checklist from India, Check List 16 (2), pp. 361-381 : 363-365

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.15560/16.2.361
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scientific name	Onthophagus ( Onthophagus ) andrewesi Arrow, 1931
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Onthophagus ( Onthophagus) andrewesi Arrow, 1931 View in CoL Figure 2B

Material examined ( 1♂). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Haringhata ( 22°57′48″N, 088°33′41″E), S.K.Sarkar leg., 03.VIII.2017, KUZEN S0129 ( 1♂).

Identification ( ♂). This species can be distinguished from other Onthophagus species by the head broad, with rounded sides and a pair of backwardly produced

recurved horns on the vertex; clypeus produced, with

a slightly rounded carina separating it from the forehead; pronotum coarsely punctate, with a mid-longitudinal groove and blunt front angles; elytra finely striate, with interstriae minutely granulate; pygidium sparingly punctate.

Geographical distribution. India: Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, and Tamil Nadu ( Arrow 1931; Biswas and Chatterjee 1986b; Chandra 2009; Karimbumkara and Priyadarsanan 2013; Sathiandran et al. 2015).

Remarks. This species is newly recorded for West Bengal state.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Scarabaeidae
Genus	Onthophagus