Onthophagus pseudojavanus Paulian, 1931

Tarasov, Sergey I., 2010, Seven new synonyms within the genus Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from the Oriental Region, Zootaxa 2566, pp. 45-48 : 47

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.197274
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6208726
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scientific name	Onthophagus pseudojavanus Paulian, 1931
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Onthophagus pseudojavanus Paulian, 1931 View in CoL

Onthophagus pseudojavanus Paulian, 1931: 272 View in CoL (type locality: Hoa Binh, Tonkin [ Vietnam]) Onthophagus demaak Masumoto, 1989: 93 syn.n. (type locality: Doi Suthep/Pui, Chiang Mai Prov. [ Thailand])

Type material examined. Holotype of O. pseudojavanus ( MNHN), male bearing the following labels:

1. White, printed: Hoa-Binh ( Tonkin) (A.de Cooman) Coll.J.Clermont

2. Red, printed: TYPE

3. White, handwritten: Onthophagus sp.? V. de javanus Lansb.

4. White, handwritten: O. pseudojavanus type

4. Orange: HOLOTYPE Onthophagus pseudojavanus Paulian, 1931 [handwritten] S. Tarasov det. 2009 [printed]

Paratype male of O. demaak ( MNHN), with locality label “Doi Suthep/Pui Chiang Mai Prov. 30.VII.–5.VIII.1988 K. MASUMOTO leg.”

Additional material examined: 1♂ and 1Ψ ( MNHN) bearing the same geographical label as that of the holotype of O. pseudojavanus Paulian, 1931 and indicated by R. Paulian as “ O. pseudojavanus ? m.”.

Remarks. The examined paratype of O. demaak is conspecific with the type series of O. pseudojavanus because they share the same aedeagus, structure of the head, vertex horn, pronotum punctation and body coloration. It seems that O. demaak was described as a new species simply because the author did not know the identity of O. pseudojavanus .