Onthophagus (Macronthophagus) rubricollis Hope, 1831

Ziani, Stefano, Bezděk, Aleš, Branco, Tristão, Hillert, Oliver, Jákl, Stanislav, Král, David, Mantič, Marion, Rössner, Eckehard & Sehnal, Richard, 2015, New country records of Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) from the Palaearctic Region, Insecta Mundi 2015 (409), pp. 1-36 : 15

Onthophagus (Macronthophagus) rubricollis Hope, 1831

Material examined. BHUTAN: Punakha, 1400 m, 5.x.2004, B. Bellini leg. (1 spec. in SZCM).

Distribution. Described by Hope (1831) from Nepal, the species is widespread in India, namely in Assam and Sikkim ( Arrow 1931), West Bengal ( Endrődi 1974), Uttar Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya ( Biswas and Chatterjee 1985), Uttarakhand ( Biswas and Ghosh 2000) and Himachal Pradesh ( Chandra 2005), and in southwest China - Xizang [= Tibet] ( Zhang 1987) and Yunnan ( Zhang 1992) Provinces. First record for Bhutan.

Remarks. Onthophagus rubricollis was first placed, doubtfully, by Balthasar (1935) in his new subgenus Serrophorus, but this genus-group name is not available from that paper (art. 13.3 of ICZN 1999). Then the species was transferred to the subgenus Digitonthophagus Balthasar, 1959 ( Balthasar 1963b) , and finally was placed by Ochi (2003) in the subgenus Macronthophagus Ochi, 2003 .

Responsible author: S. Ziani