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Male. (Figs 4A, B). Body elongate, cylindrical. Surface entirely black, glabrous, moderately shiny to shiny; dorsally almost totally punctate; punctures ocellate, moderate to very large. Legs, sterna, second abdominal ventrite, and basal margin of pygidium setose. Head. Surface laterally wrinkled, in frontal view rugose. Clypeus subtriangular, apex rounded and emarginated, weakly reflexed; clypeal carina absent; sides concave. Canthus widely rounded and extending into middle of eye. Frons with long, recurved, cylindrical horn with narrow apex; each side of horn with elongated, weak carina, anterior surface with slightly concave furrow, furrow reaching apex. Mandible tridentate, teeth upturned. Mentum with longitudinal furrow wider anteriorly and posterior concavity narrow with subparallel sides. Pronotum. Shape subquadrate, narrower than elytra together. Discal area covered by ocellate punctures combined with C-shaped, coalescent punctures; discal surface flat and declivous anteriorly (Fig. 4A, B); anterior and lateral margins complete with a marginal bead, concave at middle; posterior marginal bead absent. Pronotal disc carinate, carina convex, smooth; anterior carina more pronounced; near anterior border with a conspicuous tubercle present in each anterolateral corner; posterior carina joined posteriorly on pronotal margin, bisinuous. Anterior angle acute, posterior rounded. Middle apex laterally with smooth convex carina, intercalated by rugose area and coarse punctures. Prosternal process long, trapezoidal, concave at base and posteriorly produced; base with a spine like posterior process. Elytra. Striae irregular, and not defined, even laterally; punctures ocellate, irregular, larger on discal area and becoming smaller laterally and posteriorly; elytral apices densely punctate, punctures small to moderate; apical umbone convex, smooth. Scutellum triangular, densely punctate; punctures ocellate, moderate in size. Pygidium. In lateral view widely convex; surface totally punctate; punctures smaller and denser near anterior margin and sides, sparser and larger to apex; apex with marginal bead. Legs. Protibia with 4 external teeth; basal tooth smaller. Apex of mesotibia with 4 teeth. Apex of metatibia with 5 teeth. Aedeagus. Shape symmetrical (Fig. 5D), narrowing abruptly at middle; apex inflated, rectangle shaped, truncate; sides subparallel. In lateral view surface concave and with, acute, small projection near lateral base (Fig. 5C).
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Perger R, Grossi P (2013) Revision of the rhinoceros beetle genus Oryctophileurus Kolbe with description of a new species, the male of O. varicosus Prell, and notes on biogeography (Scarabaeoidea, Dynastinae, Phileurini) ZooKeys 346: 1–16
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