Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) fracticornis (Preyssler)

Gasca-Álvarez, Héctor Jaime, Deloya, Cuauhtémoc & Reyes-Castillo, Pedro, 2017, Teratological Cases in Five Species of Cotinis Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Gymnetini), with a Compilation of Teratologies in Scarabaeoidea, The Coleopterists Bulletin 71 (2), pp. 329-338 : 336

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-71.2.329
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DF6887A3-FFAC-FFFF-FD53-C2B9A097FE26
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scientific name	Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) fracticornis (Preyssler)
status

Treatment

Teratology. Malformation of the anteromedian protuberance of the pronotum, with asymmetrically truncated apex.

Reference. Ziani (1995).

References

Ziani, S. 1995. Un interessante caso di teratologia simmetrica in Onthophagus fracticornis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Bollettino Associazione Romana di Entomologia 49: 165 - 167.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Scarabaeidae
Genus	Onthophagus

Specimens