A new species of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 endemic to the Arabian Peninsula (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Onthophagini)

Giulio Montanaro; Stefano Ziani

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5125.4.5

A new species of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 endemic to the Arabian Peninsula (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Onthophagini)

Zootaxa. 2022 Apr 12;5125(4):421-428. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5125.4.5.

Authors

Giulio Montanaro¹, Stefano Ziani²

Affiliations

¹ World Biodiversity Association Onlus c/o Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 9, 37129 Verona, Italy. . giuliomontanaro98@gmail.com.
² GeoL@b APS, Via Laderchi 3, 48018 Faenza (RA), Italy. . stefanoziani@alice.it.

PMID: 36101205
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5125.4.5

Abstract

Onthophagus (Furconthophagus) shaykh Montanaro Ziani, new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Onthophagini), until now confused with Onthophagus (Furconthophagus) aethiopicus dOrbigny, 1902, is described, illustrated, and compared with morphologically similar taxa. The phylogenetic relationships between the new species and the Palaearctic Onthophagus (Furconthophagus) furcatus (Fabricius, 1781) are briefly discussed.

MeSH terms

Animals
Arabia
Coleoptera*
Phylogeny