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Onitis falcatus
Onitis falcatus is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is fairly widespread in Asia.
From the article Onitis falcatus on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Black or nearly black, with a clothing of reddish-yellow hair upon the legs and lower surface, smooth and shining, with the elytra and pygidium subopaque. Length is 16–23 mm, and breadth is 8–12 mm.
Range & habitat
India (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, New Delhi, Odisha, Puducherry,Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal), Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Malay Peninsula, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 425388.