Onthophagus ( Serrophorus ) Sagittarius (Fabricius, 1775)

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 : 370

Onthophagus ( Serrophorus) Sagittarius (Fabricius, 1775)

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Material examined ( 12♂, 7♀). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Haringhata ( 22°57′48″N, 088°33′45″E), S.K.Sarkar leg, 10.IX.2018, KUZEN S0214–S0215 ( 2♀). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Nakashipara ( 23°35′07″N, 088°20′57″E), B.P.Kharel leg., 20.IX.2018, KUZEN S0216–S0219 ( 4♂). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Santipur ( 23°16′01″N, 088°26′29″E), S.K.Sarkar leg., 23.IX.2018, KUZEN S0220–S0223 ( 4♀). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Chapra ( 23°30′38″N, 088°33′08″E), B.P.Kharel leg., 24.X.2018, KUZEN S0224 ( 1♀). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Tehatta ( 23°43′46″N, 088°31′56″E), B.P.Kharel leg., 22.XI.2018, KUZEN S0225–S0230 ( 6♂). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Chakdaha ( 23°04′46″N, 088°30′56″E), S.K.Sarkar leg., 10.II.2019, KUZEN S0231–S0232 ( 2♂).

Identification ( ♂). This species can be distinguished from other Onthophagus species by the head subcircular, with angulate sides; clypeus rugose, with a pair of erect horns upon the fronto-clypeal suture; clypeal margin reflexed; pronotum densely punctate, anteriorly declivous and posteriorly slightly margined; elytra strongly striate, with interstriae flat and coarsely punctate; pygidium finely and sparsely punctate.

Geographical distribution. Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, and United States of America ( Arrow 1931; Biswas and Chatterjee 1986a; Sewak 2009b). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal ( Arrow 1931; Biswas and Chatterjee 1986a, 1986b, 1991; Chatterjee and Biswas 2000; Chandra 2000; Chandra and Ahirwar 2005a, 2005b, 2007; Sewak 2006, 2009b; Chandra and Gupta 2012c, 2012d, 2013; Gajendra and Prasad 2016).

Remarks. This species is widely distributed throughout the country.