Saprovisca sarangay, new species, a second species in an unusual Philippine genus of Eupariini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae)
Author
Skelley, Paul E.
text
Insecta Mundi
2015
2015-04-17
2015
419
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5182001
1942-1354
5182001
592A535A-7020-493B-B030-A511DCFD898C
Saprovisca leytensis
Stebnicka
Figures 1–3
Saprovisca leytensis
Stebnicka, 1993: 29–30
, 35 fig. 1–3.
Diagnosis
. Length
6.9 mm
. Compared with the new species,
S. leytensis
is easily recognized by having the clypeal lateral margin not indented at juncture with clypeal-genal suture in dorsal view, pronotal disc with scattered moderate punctures and lacking large impunctate areas, humeral denticle small, abdominal sternites with sutures deep and finely fluted, and flight wings vestigial.
Saprovisca leytensis
occurs on
Leyte
,
Philippines
.
Figures 1–3.
Saprovisca leytensis
, holotype.
1)
Dorsal habitus.
2)
Head, dorsal view.
3)
Head, lateral view. Photographs by Christian König, SMNS.
Materials examined
.
Photos
of
S. leytensis
(
Fig. 1–3
) were studied.
Holotype
label data (from
Stebnicka
1993): “
Leyte
, VISCA N Baybay, in cultivated land,
3.III.1991
, leg.
W. Schawaller
& al.”
Deposited
in the
SMNS
.
Remarks
. Assuming
S. leytensis
possesses similar horn dimorphisms as found in
S. sarangay
, the
holotype
is a minor male. The
holotype
was collected in cultivated area with no large mammals that was near primary forest (
in.litt
., W. Schawaller).