A review of the Neotropical dung beetle genera Deltorhinum Harold, 1869, and Lobidion gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)
Author
Génier, François
text
Zootaxa
2010
2693
35
48
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.199593
876fdefe-ec44-4495-9003-f6d32d5f989e
1175-5326
199593
Deltorhinum
Harold, 1867
Harold 1867
: 96 [original description]
Harold 1869
: 1003 [catalogue]
Gillet 1911
: 54 [catalogue]
Luederwaldt 1931
: 366 [identification key to genus]
Paulian 1938
: 234 [identification key to genus]
Blackwelder 1944
: 205 [checklist]
Vulcano & Pereira 1967
: 533–603 [identification key to genus] Vaz-de-Mello 2000: 192 [checklist]
Medina et al. 2001
: 134 [checklist]
Vaz-de-Mello 2008: 12 [systematic position]
Almeida & Mise 2009
: 237 [mention]
Redescription.
Small to moderate in size (6.5–14.0 mm). Body oval to elongate-oval. Color light brown in teneral specimens to black, with distinct metallic sheen only in
D. robustum
. Clypeus regularly tapering toward apex, which is moderately to strongly upturned; apex at most broadly emarginate, never with two distinct teeth. Clypeofrontal suture always distinctly carinate. Pronotal anterior portion modified, produced into a single broad or two narrow lobate projections and additional modifications; simple only in
D. robustum
, which has a somewhat triangular impression on each side of midline. Pronotal disc with a deep and well defined longitudinal sulcus along most of midline. Elytra strongly convex, with 7 striae on disc, stria 8 distinct from stria 9 only at apex. Elytral pseudepiplera concealed in dorsal view. Pygidium narrowly sulcate basally, sulcus broadly arcuate or slightly bisinuous in distal view. Protibia obliquely truncate anteriorly; protarsi atrophied and usually broken off in non teneral individuals. Mesotibiae and metatibiae very wide at apex in ventral view; tarsi reduced in length, first tarsomere at most 1.5 X longer than wide at apex, usually as wide at apex as long. Sternite 8 unmodified medially. Aedeagus unmodified, parameres simply tapering toward apex, lacking denticles, hooks or rough surface. Internal sac with variously shaped sclerites, usually with a large apical sclerite seemingly forming a guide for the flagellum.