Aulonogyrus obliquus explained

Aulonogyrus obliquus is a species of beetle native to India, and Sri Lanka.[1]

Description

It is recorded from Eastern Ghats and North Western Himalaya and Silent Valley in Kerala.

The species is elongate-ovate with a black color dorsum and ventrum. Head with fine wrinkles and clypeus transverse. Antennae black, stout and short. Pronotum transverse. Elytra apically truncate with margined lateral sides. Scutellum is transverse.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Cenozoic out-of-Africa dispersal shaped diversification of the whirligig beetle genus Aulonogyrus (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae: Gyrinini) . 2021-06-17 . Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 76(2).
  2. Web site: Gyrinidae of Silent Valley . 2021-06-17 . Rec. zool. Surv. India. 84 (1-4): 59–66. 1966 .

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