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”.