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Onthophagus gravis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Scarabaeidae
Genus:	Onthophagus
Species:	O. gravis
Binomial name
Onthophagus gravis Walker, 1858
Synonyms
Onthophagus nietneri Harold, 1880

Onthophagus gravis, is a species of dung beetle found in India, and Sri Lanka.

Description

This minute oval, very convex species has an average length of about 3.5 to 4 mm. Body dull sooty black. Head, pronotum, legs, and ventrum bright metallic green, golden-red, or coppery in color. Antennae, mouthparts and tarsi are reddish. Whitish setae found on the dorsum. Head flat and closely rugose. Clypeus sharply angular in the middle. Pronotum closely, finely, and evenly granular. Pygidium closely and deeply punctured. Male has broadly clubbed spur in the front tibia. But in female, the spur is slender and strongly curved.

References

1. "Onthophagus gravis Walker, 1858". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
2. "Onthophagus gravis Walker, 1858". discoverlife. Retrieved 2021-07-23.
3. "Onthophagus gravis Walker, 1858". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 2021-07-23.

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• Scarabaeinae
• Insects of India
• Beetles of Sri Lanka
• Beetles described in 1858
• Scarabaeinae stubs