Neotrichaphodioides, new genus of Neotropical Aphodiini, with description of a new species from Peru (Scarabaeoidea: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae)
Author
Dellacasa, Marco
Author
Dellacasa, Giovanni
Author
Skelley, Paul E.
text
Insecta Mundi
2010
2010-09-24
2010
133
1
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5164776
1942-1354
5164776
Neotrichaphodioides ecuadoriensis
(
Petrovitz, 1961
)
,
new combination
(
Fig. 10-14
)
Aphodius
(
Trichaphodius
)
ecuadoriensis
Petrovitz, 1961: 444
;
Dellacasa 1988: 274
.
Aphodius
(
Gonaphodiellus
)
ecuadoriensis
;
Petrovitz 1970: 226
.
Type
locality.
Curay [Curaray],
Ecuador
.
Type repository.
Senkenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany
(
holotype
examined).
Redescription.
Length 5.0-5.5 mm; oblong, moderately convex, subshiny, glabrous. Reddish brown, clypeal margin and pronotal sides paler; legs reddish brown, antennal club yellowish. Head with epistoma convex, near imperceptibly microreticulate, evenly sparsely finely punctured; clypeus almost semicircular, entirely bordered, edge glabrous, anteriorly slightly reflexed; genae obtusely rounded, not ciliate, feebly protruding beyond eyes; later noticeably large; frontal suture finely impressed, mutic; front evenly sparsely punctured. Pronotum transverse, few convex, finely microreticulate, dually punctured; large, moderately coarse punctures, four to five times larger than small, irregularly, not closely sparse on sides, lacking on disc; small, fine punctures evenly sparsely scattered throughout, somewhat finer on disc; lateral margins feebly arcuate, rather thinly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles subtruncate; base distinctly bisinuate, not bordered. Scutellum flat, with few fine sparse punctures near base. Elytra oval elongate, moderately convex, feebly broadened posteriorly, finely striate; striae moderately impressed, finely punctured, subcrenulate; intervals superficially alutaceous, slightly convex, sparsely finely punctured. Hind tibiae superior apical spur shorter than first tarsal segment; latter somewhat longer than following three combined. Male: head with epistoma regularly convex; pronotum relatively more transverse, less convex, more sparsely punctured; metasternal plate concave, densely punctured, pubescent; aedeagus
Fig. 11-12
. Female: head with epistome distinctly gibbous on disc; pronotum relatively more convex, less transverse, more densely punctured; metasternal plate nearly flat, sparsely punctured, almost glabrous.
Material examined.
ECUADOR
,
Curaray
,
4.I.1906
,
F. Ohaus
S. (
holotype
male
SMFM
)
;
Canelos
,
22.X.1905
,
F. Ohaus
S. (
allotype
MHNG
)
.
Distribution.
Ecuador
.