Onthophagus (Colobonthophagus) dama (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 : 366

Onthophagus (Colobonthophagus) dama (Fabricius, 1798)

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Material examined (26♂, 39♀). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Karimpur (23°58′12″N, 088°37′12″E), S.K.Sarkar leg., 08. V.2017, KUZEN S0138–S0141 (4♂). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Kaliganj (23°44′03″N, 088°13′57″E) (23°44′03″N, 088°13′57″E), B.P.Kharel leg., 11. V.2017, KUZEN S0142-S0143 (2♀). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Krishnanagar (23°23′59″N, 088°30′37″E), B.P.Kharel leg., 01. VI.2018, KUZEN S0144–S0146 (3♀), KUZEN S0147-S0151 (5♂). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Nabadwip (23°24′11″N, 088°22′5″E), S.K.Sarkar leg., 03. VI.2018, KUZEN S0152–S0154 (3♀), KUZEN S0155–S0157 (3♂). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Santipur (23°15′56″N, 088°26′10″E), S.K.Sarkar leg., 08.VII.2018, KUZEN S0158–S0163 (6♀), KUZEN S0164–S0171 (8♂). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Haringhata (22°57′49″N, 088°33′36″E), S.K.Sarkar leg., 10.VII.2018, KUZEN S0172–S0179 (8♀). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Hanskhali (23°21′56″N, 088°36′07″E), B.P.Kharel leg., 05.VIII.2018, KUZEN S0180–S0185 (6♀). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Ranaghat (23°09′53″N, 088°33′27″E), B.P.Kharel leg., 09.III.2019, KUZEN S0186–S0192 (7♀). India, West Bengal, Nadia,Tehatta (23°43′53″N, 088°31′44″E), S.K.Sarkar leg., 22.VIII.2018, KUZEN S0193–S0198 (6♂). India, West Bengal, Nadia, Chapra (23°30′50″N, 088°32′56″E), B.P.Kharel leg., 23.IX.2018, KUZEN S0199–S0202 (4♀).

Identification (♂). This species can be distinguished from other Onthophagus species by the body entirely glabrous dorsally; head short and broad, with a pair of long, backwardly inclined, outwardly curved, and toothed horns on the vertex; clypeus strongly punctate; clypeal margin semi-circular and medially slightly projected; pronotum finely and sparsely punctate, with the sides nearly rounded and basal margins slightly angulate medially; elytra distinctly striate, with interstria enearly flat and finely and scarcely punctate; pygidium moderately punctate.

Geographical distribution. Bhutan, China, Nepal, and Sri Lanka ( Arrow1931; Biswas and Chatterjee 1986a; Singh et al. 2017). India: Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal ( Arrow 1931; Biswas and Chatterjee 1985, 1986a, 1991; Chandra 2000, 2005; Chandra and Ahirwar 2005a, 2005b, 2007; Sewak 2006; Chandra and Gupta 2011a, 2012c, 2012d, 2012e, 2013; Jadhav and Sharma 2012; Chandra et al. 2012a, 2012b, 2012c; AnithaRani and Sanjayan2013; Karimbumkara and Priyadarsanan 2013; Bharmal et al. 2014; Gupta et al. 2014; Sarkar et al. 2015; Sathiandran et al. 2015; Gajendra and Prasad 2016; Singh et al. 2017; Kalawate 2018).

Remarks. This species is widely distributed throughout the country.