Onthophagus (Colobonthophagus) paliceps Arrow, 1931

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 : 368

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15560/16.2.361
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scientific name	Onthophagus (Colobonthophagus) paliceps Arrow, 1931
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Onthophagus (Colobonthophagus) paliceps Arrow, 1931 View in CoL

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Material examined (1♂). India, West Bengal, Karimpur (23°58′27″N, 088°37′25″E), B.P.Kharel leg., 08. V.2017, KUZEN S0207 (1♂).

Identification (♂). This species can be distinguished from other Onthophagus species by the head bearing a short, slender and upwardly curved median horn, along with a pair of short, transverse and rectangular erect process arising from the inner margin of each eye; forehead minutely punctate; pronotum minutely and sparsely punctate, with the anterior angles bluntly produced and posterior margin slightly rounded; front tibia with short and spatulate terminal spur.

Geographical distribution. Pakistan (Siddiqui et al. 2014). India: Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, and Uttarakhand ( Arrow 1931; Chandra and Gupta 2012c, 2012d; Karimbumkara and Priyadarsanan 2013; Siddiqui et al. 2014).

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