''Onthophagus dama'', is a species of

dung beetle Dung beetles are beetles that feed on feces. Some species of dung beetles can bury dung 250 times their own mass in one night. Many dung beetles, known as ''rollers'', roll dung into round balls, which are used as a food source or breeding cha ...

found in Nepal, Bhutan, India, and Sri Lanka.

Description

This oval, compact and less convex species has an average length of about 8.5 to 11 mm. Body dark greenish, bluish-black or coppery. While its ventrum, head, and pronotum are shiny, the elytra are without shine. The dorsum are entirely without setae, and the clypeus are semi-circularly rounded. Its pronotum are finely and sparsely punctured, and has elytra with distinctly punctured striae and flat intervals. Pygidium opaque and moderately punctured. In males, the clypeus are feebly punctured, and vertex bears a pair of horns. It has very short horns, without teeth or curvature. In females, the clypeus are strongly transversely rugose.

Ecology

Adults are coprophagus, and make tunnels in fresh dungs. Frequenly seen in cow dung and human feces. They inhabited in tropical dry forest and agricultural habitats.

Gallery

Onthophagus WG.jpg, Onthophagus dama Fabricius, 1798 male (3113451620).jpg, male

References

Scarabaeinae Beetles of Sri Lanka Insects described in 1798 {{Scarabaeinae-stub