Systematic revision of Gonaphodiellus taxa, with description of two new genera and fourteen new species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) Author Dellacasa, Marco Museo di Storia Naturale e del Territorio Università di Pisa Via Roma, 79 I- 56011 Calci (Pisa), Italy dellacasa@museo.unipi.it Author Dellacasa, Giovanni Via Talamone 31 / 19 I- 16127 Genova, Italy dellacasag@alice.it Author Gordon, Robert D. Northern Plains Entomology P. O. Box 65 Willow City, ND 58384 USA rdgordon@utma.com text Insecta Mundi 2012 2012-04-06 2012 230 1 41 journal article 55533 10.5281/zenodo.5174222 b0a0b4e7-7c0d-4b51-9a59-156975677df7 1942-1354 5174222 Gonaphodiellus martinpierai new species ( Fig. 28-32 ) Aphodius ( Gonaphodiellus ) bimaculosus ; Galante et al. 2003: 303 nec Schmidt 1909 . Type locality. Acajete, m 2000, Veracruz [ Mexico ]. Type repository: Dellacasa Collection, Genoa, Italy . Description. Length 5.5-6.0 mm; oblong, convex, shiny, glabrous. Dark brown; clypeal margin, anterior angles of pronotum, base and preapical declivity of elytra paler; legs brown-reddish; antennal club testaceous. Head with epistome slightly gibbous on disc, finely regularly not densely punctured throughout; clypeus faintly sinuate at middle, obtusely round at sides, lateral margins slightly arcuate, very finely bordered, edge with extremely short and sparse bristles; genae obtuse, very shortly ciliate, feebly protruding from the eyes; frontal suture finely impressed; front finely regularly punctured. Pronotum moderately transverse, convex, finely regularly not densely punctured throughout; sides feebly arcuate, finely bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles widely truncate; truncature faintly sinuate inwardly; base bisinuate. Scutellum elongate, sparsely punctured on basal half. Elytra slightly widened posteriorly, minutely denticulate at shoulder; striae extremely fine and very superficially punctured, not crenulate; interstriae shiny, almost flat, near imperceptibly sparsely punctured. Hind tibiae upper spur longer than the half of first tarsal segment; first tarsal segment longer than following four segments combined. Male: pronotum not narrowed anteriorly; fore tibiae spur relatively stouter and outwardly curved; metasternal plate moderately excavate longitudinally; aedeagus Fig. 31-32 . Female: pronotum somewhat narrowed anteriorly; fore tibiae spur relatively slender and almost straight; metasternal plate flat. Type material. MEXICO : Veracruz : Acajete , m 2000, 09-11.III.1991 , leg. Martín-Piera F. , bosque mesofilo, excr. vacuno ( male holotype and allotype , DCGI ) . Distribution. Known from the type locality only. Etymology. Named in honor of our friend and colleague, the late Dr. Firmin Martín-Piera, Spanish specialist in Scarabaeoidea. Bionomics. The specimens of the type series were collected in March, in cow dung in “bosque mesofilo”.