Onthophagus clermonti Paulian, 1931

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

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Onthophagus clermonti Paulian, 1931 View in CoL

Onthophagus clermonti Paulian, 1931: 271 View in CoL (type locality: Hoa-Binh, Tonkin [ Vietnam]) Onthophagus parvidens Frey, 1971: 98 View in CoL syn.n. (type locality: Hoa-Binh, Tonkin [ Vietnam])

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

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

2. Red, printed: TYPE

3. White, handwritten: Clermonti type

4. Orange: HOLOTYPE O. clermonti Paulian , 931 [handwritten] S. Tarasov det. 2009 [printed]

Holotype of O. parvidens (NHB), male bearing the following labels:

1. White, printed: HOA-BINH TONKIN VII. [handwritten] 1934 A. DE COOMAN

2. Red, handwritten: Type

3. White, handwritten: Type Onthophagus [printed] parvidens n.sp. ♂ det.G.Frey,196 [printed]

4. Orange: HOLOTYPE O. parvidens Frey, 1971 [handwritten] S. Tarasov det. 2009 [printed]

5. White: Onthophagus clermonti Paulian [handwritten] S. Tarasov det. 2009 [printed]

Additional material examined: 1♂, Vietnam, Hoa Binh Lac Tho, leg. A. de Cooman ( MNHN)

Remarks. Apparently, Frey did not take into account the insufficient and obscure description of O. clermonti based on one female and did not examine the holotype of the former. In the original description ( Frey 1971) he compares O. parvidens with O. deflexicollis Lansberge, 1883 . The type series of O. clermonti is comprised only of the holotype female, therefore it is not possible to examine the critical structures of the aedeagus for species identification in Onthophagus . However, I conclude that the holotypes of O. clermonti and O. parvidens are conspecific because they share the same principle diagnostic character states of external morphology (e.g. the groundplan of the head, coloration, pronotum punctation, etc.). Moreover, both type series were found at the same locality Hoa-Binh in Vietnam.