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Species Onthophagus taurus - Bull Headed Dung Beetle


The establishment of the Onthophagus anthracinus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) species complex and the description of a new species
By Arriaga-Jiménez A., Escobar-Hernández F., Rös M., Kohlmann B.
Can. Entomol. 152: 1-17, 2020
doi:10.4039/tce.2019.62

Scarab beetles of the genus Onthophagus Latreille north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
By Howden H.F., Cartwright O.L.
Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 114: 1-135, 1963

A contribution to the knowledge of the mountain entomofauna of Mexico with a description of two new species of Onthophagus ...
By Victor Moctezuma, Michele Rossini, Mario Zunino, Gonzalo Halffter
ZooKeys 572: 23-50, 2016
Full title: A contribution to the knowledge of the mountain entomofauna of Mexico with a description of two new species of Onthophagus Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae)
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Adventive Onthophagus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in North America: geographic ranges, diagnoses, and new distributional records
By Hoebeke E.R., Beucke K.
Entomological News 108: 345–362, 1997

Additional records of adventive Onthophagus Latreille (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in North America
By MacRae T.C., Penn S.R.
The Coleopterists Bulletin 55: 49–50, 2001

Phylogenetic analyses reveal reliable morphological markers to classify mega-diversity in Onthophagini dung beetles...
By Tarasov S.I., Solodovnikov A.Y.
Cladistics 27(5): 490–528, 2011
Full title: Phylogenetic analyses reveal reliable morphological markers to classify mega-diversity in Onthophagini dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
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Two austral dung beetles new to the Virginia fauna (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)
By Roble S.M., Hoffman R.L.
Banisteria 37: 30‒33, 2011

The taxonomic revolution of New World dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
By Cupello M., Silva F.A.B., Vaz-de-Mello F.Z.
Front. Ecol. Evol. 11: 1‒42, 2023