Onthophagus (Onthophagus) cervus (Fabricius, 1798)

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

Onthophagus (Onthophagus) cervus (Fabricius, 1798) Figure 2D

Material examined (1♂). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Hanskhali (23°21′40″N, 088°35′56″E), B.P.Kharel leg., 05.VII.2018, KUZEN S0131 (1♂).

Identification (♂). This species can be distinguished from other Onthophagus species by the head narrow, with rounded sides and a pair of long, backwardly sloping, and internally curved horns on the vertex; clypeus truncate, little produced but not pointed, and separated from the forehead by a feeble carina; pronotum strongly, unevenly, and scantily punctate, with sharp front angles; elytra finely striate, with slightly convex and finely punctate interstriae; pygidium coarsely and finely punctate.

Geographical distribution. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam ( Sewak 2009a; Biswas and Chatterjee 1986a). India: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal ( Arrow 1931; Biswas and Chatterjee 1986a; Chandra 2000; Chandra and Ahirwar 2005a, 2005b, 2007; Sewak 2006, 2009a, 2009b, 2010; Jadhav and Sharma 2012; Chandra et al. 2012b; Chandra and Gupta

2012c, 2012d, 2013; Anitha Rani and Sanjayan 2013,

Karimbumkara and Priyadarsanan 2013; Sathiandran et al. 2015; Gajendra and Prasad 2016).

Remarks. This species is widely distributed throughout India.