Catharsius pithecius (Fabricius, 1775)

Abbas, Muhammad, Khaliq, Sobia, Masroor, Rafaqat & Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, 2024, A checklist of the dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) deposited at Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (2), pp. 415-430 : 418

Catharsius pithecius (Fabricius, 1775) ( Fig. 1F) (C#68734)

Scarabaeus pithecius Fabricius, 1775:21 . Type locality: India; Scarabaeus nanus Fabricius, 1792 ; Scarabaeus sabaeus Fabricius, 1781 ; Copris sinensis Hope, 1842 ; Catharsius pithecius Gillet, 1911

Material examined. PAKISTAN, Islamabad Capital : 5 specimens, 2.VII.2005, leg. & det. M. Abbas, 1 specimen, 20.X.1980, leg. Anonymous, det. S. Khaliq; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 7 specimens, Peshawar , 13.VII.2007, leg. & det. M. Abbas , 5 specimens, Abbottabad , 18.VII.2008, leg. & det. M. Abbas , 7 specimens, Kohat , 28.VII.2012, leg. & det. M. Abbas , 1 specimen, Kopar, Malakand , 18.VII.2020, leg. S. Khan, det. S. Khaliq ; Punjab: 1 specimen, Khabeki lake, Khushab , 3-7.VIII.2007, leg. & det. M. Abbas ; INDIA, 1 specimen, Madhya Pradesh: Harrah land, Rewa , 9.III.1927, leg. H.S. Pruthi, det. Anonymous , 1 specimen, South India, Floor of Paini Hills , 20-23.IX.1922, leg. S. Ketap, det. Anonymous.

Distribution. Azad Kashmir: Palandri; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Dera Ismail Khan; Punjab: Chakwal (Kallar Kahar), Sialkot; Sindh: Karachi, Hyderabad (Tandojam), Tharparkar (Chelhar) ( Hashmi & Tashfeen, 1992; Hussain et al., 2020; Siddiqui et al., 2014).