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Length 4.0 to
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Head short, clearly wider than long, with clypeus broadly round, only very feebly sinuate anteriorly, sides not sinuate; clypeofrontal carina distinct and bent backward, slightly closer to the base of the horn than to the anterior margin of clypeus; occipital carina extended in a long horn arising between the eyes, where it is broad, broader than clypeofrontal carina, and flat, directed backward, tapering gradually to the extremity and following the curvature of pronotum, with moderately long yellow setae mainly at sides, in major males, reduced to a narrow straight lamina in minor males (
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); clypeal surface with very transversely rugose, setigerous punctures, frontal surface doubly sparsely punctate.
</paragraph>
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Pronotum convex, declivous anteriorly, with a distinct anteromedian depressed area in major males (in minor male (
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) without depression) and a small hardly distinguishable posterolateral dull area on either side near pronotal posterior angles; anterior angles distinctly produced, sides not sinuate behind them in dorsal view; dorsal surface setigerously punctate, punctures sub-regular in distribution, separated by 1-2 diameters on disc, smaller and more spaced on the anteromedian furrow; each puncture bears a small granule at its anterior margin, and a long pale-yellow seta, slightly longer that those on clypeus.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D322473E93BFF8DAFEBBF8F1" bold="true" box="[192,287,1841,1865]" pageId="7" pageNumber="6">Figure 3.</emphasis>
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[major ♂: Yemen, Ibb gov.].
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Dorsal habitus.
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Parameres, lateral view.
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Parameres, dorsal view.
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Endophallus. AcS: accessory endophallites. LC: lamella copulatrix. Rs:
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. Photos by A. Degiovanni, edited by G. Fiumi [from
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].
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<paragraph id="F3290902D32D4731927FFF0DFD29FE9B" blockId="8.[192,1440,230,502]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Males with protibial spur clearly bent downward apically, and with a small denticle strongly curved downward on the inner angle of protibial apex.</paragraph>
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Female not examined. According to
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, females have the occipital carina extended in a backward bent lamina, placed between the eyes, in the middle of them, and a pronotal anteromedian transverse gibbosity, sometimes very slightly divided in two lobes.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="F3290902D32D4731927FFE7EFB85FE4D" blockId="8.[192,1440,230,502]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">
Male genital armature. Parameres short, apices bent ventrally, obviously diverging apically, without basolateral plate denticle, round at apex (
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); endophallus with the presence of accessory endophallites, two evident raspulae and a bracket-shaped lamella copulatrix, very thin (
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).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D473193BFFDEDFEFFFD98" bold="true" box="[192,347,518,544]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Distribution.</emphasis>
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(
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).
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,
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,
<collectingCountry id="8B814992D32D4731903BFDECFC2EFD99" box="[836,906,519,545]" name="Kenya" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Kenya</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="970774F3D32D473190E6FDEDFBE9FD99" author="d'Orbigny H." box="[921,1101,518,545]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7" pagination="1 - 608" refId="ref27773" refString="d'Orbigny H. 1913. Synopsis des Onthophagides d'Afrique. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France 82: 1 - 608." type="journal article" year="1913">dOrbigny 1913</bibRefCitation>
).
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(
<bibRefCitation id="970774F3D32D4731978DFDEDFA38FD98" author="Balthasar V." box="[1266,1436,518,544]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7" pagination="59 - 73" refId="ref25804" refString="Balthasar V. 1969. Contributions a la connaissance de la faune entomologique de la Cote-d'Ivoire (J. Decelle, 1961 - 1964). XXXII. Coleoptera Scarabaeidae et Aphodiidae. Annales du Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale / Sciences Zoologiques 175: 59 - 73." type="journal article" year="1969">Balthasar 1969</bibRefCitation>
, doubtful record).
<collectingCountry id="8B814992D32D473192F8FDC1FE77FDFC" box="[391,467,554,580]" name="Yemen" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Yemen</collectingCountry>
(
<bibRefCitation id="970774F3D32D4731929EFDC1FD70FDFC" author="Ziani S &amp; Keith D." box="[481,724,554,580]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7" pagination="1 - 4" refId="ref35001" refString="Ziani S, Keith D. 2023. 3 rd contribution to the knowledge of Arabian Onthophagini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Onthophagus aeneopiceus d'Orbigny, 1902, a new record for Yemen and for the Palaearctic ecozone. Insecta Mundi 0974: 1 - 4." type="book chapter" year="2023">Ziani and Keith 2023</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="BB8C5A89D32D473193BFFDBFFBFBFC41" pageId="8" pageNumber="7" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph id="F3290902D32D473193BFFDBFFB30FD0D" blockId="8.[192,1441,596,696]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">
<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D473193BFFDBFFE07FDD6" bold="true" box="[192,419,596,622]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Material examined.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D473192D5FDBFFE58FDD6" bold="true" box="[426,508,596,622]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">
<collectingCountry id="8B814992D32D473192D5FDBFFE58FDD6" box="[426,508,596,622]" name="Eritrea" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Eritrea</collectingCountry>
</emphasis>
: “Erythrée” [Eritrea], examined by photos (
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of
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D473197F7FDBEFA8FFDD7" box="[1160,1323,597,623]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">O. aeneopiceus</emphasis>
, MNHN
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)
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.
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D473193BEFD93FEABFD2A" bold="true" box="[193,271,632,658]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">
<collectingCountry id="8B814992D32D473193BEFD93FEABFD2A" box="[193,271,632,658]" name="Yemen" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Yemen</collectingCountry>
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:
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gov., W of
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,
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<collectingDate id="976CD62AD32D47319125FD93FD6BFD2A" box="[602,719,632,658]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7" value="1976-03-30">30.iii.1976</collectingDate>
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,
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leg.
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(
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;
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al
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,
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leg.
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.
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D473193BFFD2DFE2AFD58" bold="true" box="[192,398,710,736]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Historical review.</emphasis>
Despite
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D4731928FFD2CFD37FD58" box="[496,659,711,737]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">O. aeneopiceus</emphasis>
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being described more than a century ago, its nomenclatorial and systematic history is relatively poor. According to
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, the
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, a male, the sole available specimen for the description, was collected in
<collectingCountry id="8B814992D32D47319137FCE7FD3CFC9E" box="[584,664,780,806]" name="Eritrea" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Eritrea</collectingCountry>
. Eleven years later,
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, evidently after examining further material, specified the presence of a long curved backward cephalic horn in major males, described the female and added other localities from three more countries.
<bibRefCitation id="970774F3D32D4731904BFCB9FC55FCD4" author="Balthasar V." box="[820,1009,850,876]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7" refId="ref25682" refString="Balthasar V. 1963. Monographie der Scarabaeidae und Aphodiidae der palaearktischen und orientalischen Region. Coleoptera Lamellicornia. Band 2. Coprinae (Onitini, Oniticellini, Onthophagini). Tschechoslowakischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; Prague. 627 p. + 16 pls." type="book" year="1963">Balthasar (1963)</bibRefCitation>
, whilst specifying that
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D47319784FCB8FA04FCD4" box="[1275,1440,851,877]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">O. aeneopiceus</emphasis>
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was an Afrotropical species, hypothesized its presence also in the Palaearctic Africa.
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reported the species for
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, but this record, completely off the known distribution area of the species, was rightly regarded dubiously by
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. Lastly,
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published the first record for the Palaearctic ecozone (
<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D473192D5FC0BFE42FC41" box="[426,486,992,1017]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">sensu</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="970774F3D32D47319293FC34FD63FC41" author="Lobl I &amp; Lobl D." box="[492,711,991,1017]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7" refId="ref31167" refString="Lobl I, Lobl D. 2016. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 3. Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Revised and updated edition. Brill; Leiden, Boston. 983 p. https: // doi. org / 10.1163 / 9789004309142" type="book" year="2016">Löbl and Löbl 2016</bibRefCitation>
) after
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collected in
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.
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D473193BFFBE1FE8BFB9C" bold="true" box="[192,303,1034,1060]" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Remarks.</emphasis>
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, although preferring not to insert
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D473190B6FBE1FBC9FB9C" box="[969,1133,1034,1060]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">O. aeneopiceus</emphasis>
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in any known subgenus of
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D473193BDFBC6FEF7FBFF" box="[194,339,1069,1095]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Onthophagus</emphasis>
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, pointed out the similarity between the lamella copulatrix and the overall structures inside the endophallus of
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D47319213FBBAFDAAFBD2" box="[364,526,1105,1131]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">O. aeneopiceus</emphasis>
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with those of
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D473191D3FBBAFCBAFBD2" box="[684,798,1105,1131]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">O. mopsus</emphasis>
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.
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It is noteworthy that
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D47319299FB9FFD23FB35" box="[486,647,1140,1166]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">O. aeneopiceus</emphasis>
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is, so far, the sole species belonging to the group in which the male protibial spur is sinuate, clearly bent downward apically. This characteristic is common in those
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<emphasis id="C1E2D510D32D473197C7FB7DFAEFFB08" box="[1208,1355,1174,1200]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="7">Onthophagus</emphasis>
species
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somehow associated with burrows or nests of small mammals (
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). Only further investigation will be able to clarify whether the biology of this species is connected to pholeophily.
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