Onthophagus (Onthophagiellus) crassicollis Boucomont, 1913

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 : 365-366

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.2.361
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scientific name	Onthophagus (Onthophagiellus) crassicollis Boucomont, 1913
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Material examined (2♀). India, West Bengal, Nadia,

Kaliganj (23°44′02″N, 088°14′02″E), B.P.Kharel leg., 01. VI.2018, KUZEN S0136-S0137 (2♀).

Identification (♀). This species can be distinguished from other Onthophagus species by the head narrow, with a straight and strongly elevated carina on the vertex, and a second curved carina on the forehead; clypeus ogival, rounded, and little reflexed anteriorly, transversely rugose, and separated from forehead by a feeble carina; pronotum strongly and closely punctate, with two anterior prominences; elytra finely striate, with flat interstriae; metatarsomere I long, about four times the length of metatarsomere II; pygidium sparsely punctate.

Geographical distribution. China, Iran, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam ( Arrow 1931; Schoolmeeters 2019). India: Arunachal Pradesh, and Rajasthan ( Arrow 1931; Biswas and Chatterjee 1985; Sewak 2006, 2009a, 2009b; Muhaimin et al. 2015; Schoolmeeters 2019).

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