Revision of Anomalomorpha Arrow, 1908 and Enracius Dechambre, 1999, with Erbmahcedius new genus from southeastern Australia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae: Pentodontini: Cheiroplatina)
Author
Hutchinson, Paul M.
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (Quarantine WA), Locked Bag 69, Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986, Australia.
Author
Allsopp, Peter G.
Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-12-02
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10.11646/zootaxa.5072.5.2
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Erbmahcedius
Hutchinson & Allsopp
,
new genus
Type
species.
Anomalomorpha giveni
Carne, 1957
, here designated.
FIGURES 52–57.
Erbmahcedius giveni
(
Carne, 1957
)
,
new combination
, holotype male.
52
, Dorsal view;
53,
ventral view;
54,
lateral view;
55,
frontal view;
56,
pygidium;
57,
labels.
Description (
Figs. 52–63
).
Body
12–14 mm
long, reddish brown, ovate, low convex, head and pronotum unarmed. Maxilla and galea reduced to small conical pieces, unarmed, terminated by pencils of sensory setae; mentum flat, apex of ligula truncate, palps globular and short; mandibles obscured by clypeus, external margin rounded. Antennae with 9 antennomeres, club with 3 lamellae and shorter than length of shaft. Clypeus rounded, glabrous; clypeofrontal suture transverse. Pronotum with anterior edge entirely narrowly membranous, surface evenly convex and micropunctate, lateral margins unguttered. Elytra with lateral margin unguttered, striae vaguely impressed, epipleural plane in anterior half vertical. Female with penultimate abdominal ventrite with row of setae removed from posterior edge. Male tarsi elongate; protarsomere 5 longer than tarsomere 1; proclaws of males symmetrical; metafemur of males and females long, slender, protruding beyond elytra; metatibia of female stout with apex dilated. Parameres with internal margin untoothed, external margin arcuate, glabrous.
Etymology.
The name is a based on a reversal of Roger-Paul Dechambre’s family name reflecting his use of
Enracius
based on a reversal of Philip Carne’s name. It is masculine.