Omorgus (Omorgus) khandesh (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Trogidae), a new species from India, along with an annotated catalogue of the Oriental and Palearctic species of the subgenus Omorgus Erichson, 1847
Author
Strümpher, Werner P.
Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, PO Box 413, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.
Author
Kalawate, Aparna S.
0000-0001-6595-6749
Zoological Survey of India, Western Regional Centre, Vidhya Nagar, Sector- 29, P. C. N. T. (PO), Rawet Road, Akurdi, Pune, Maharashtra 411044, India. aparna _ ent @ yahoo. co. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6595 - 6749
aparna_ent@yahoo.co.in
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-02-02
5231
5
501
522
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5231.5.1
1175-5326
7609508
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Omorgus
(
Omorgus
)
mollis
(
Arrow, 1927
)
(
Figs. 32–35
)
Trox mollis
Arrow, 1927: 468
(original description).
Trox mollis
:
Haaf (1954a)
: 391
(diagnosis, illustration);
Scholtz (1986a)
: 38
(redescription and
lectotype
designation, distribution, illustrations, key).
Omorgus
(
Omorgus
)
mollis
:
Zidek (2013)
: 13
, 20 (checklist);
Zidek (2017)
: 104
, 112 (checklist).
Type
locality:
“Borneo”.
Type depository.
Lectotype
(male) at
NHMUK
.
Distribution:
Indonesia
(Borneo,
Sumatra
),
Malaysia
(
Sabah
) (
Scholtz 1986a
;
Schoolmeesters 2022
).
Comments:
The original type series consisted of
five specimens
(
Scholtz 1986a
). However, we could only trace
three type
specimens.
Lectotype
and
paralectotype
in
NHMUK
,
and
one paralectotype
in
SDEI
.