Oxyomus mariateresae new species of Mexican Aphodiini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) Author Dellacasa, Marco Author Dellacasa, Giovanni Author Gordon, Robert D. text Insecta Mundi 2014 2014-01-31 2014 343 1 3 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.5178670 1942-1354 5178670 652ECCDC-093B-48B7-8FF9-B5B1BD6F754D Oxyomus mariateresae new species ( Figures 1–5 ) Type locality. Llano de las Flores, 17°26’37.1”N- 096°30’13.2”W , Oaxaca , Mexico . Type repository. Dellacasa collection, Genoa, Italy . Description. Length 3.0–4.0 mm, oblong, convex, almost dull, pubescent. Dark brownish-grey, anterior angles of pronotum and legs dark brown; antennal club blackish. Head with epistome moderately convex medially, alutaceous, laterally evenly coarsely not very closely punctured; punctures cariose and those toward genae near imperceptibly haired; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, round at sides, rather thickly bordered, edge anteriorly slightly reflexed, glabrous; genae obtusely round, sparsely ciliate, protruding from eyes; frontal suture finely impressed, somewhat raised at each side and at middle; front widely alutaceous, evenly coarsely punctured. Pronotum transverse, convex, faintly foveolate, longitudinally at middle and obliquely on each side, strongly alutaceous, evenly densely coarsely and somewhat irregularly punctured; punctures umbilicate, cariose, each one with rather short recumbent seta; lateral margins feebly arcuate, somewhat tapered before hind angles, thickly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles well defined, obtuse; base moderately bisinuate, finely bordered, edge crenulate. Scutellum sunken, alutaceous, superficially confusedly punctured. Elytra moderately convex, feebly widened posteriorly, with deep narrow striae, catenulate on disc, strongly crenulate; interstriae alutaceous, convex, subcarinate medially, densely, coarsely confusedly punctured and with two median longitudinal rows of short yellowish recumbent setae. Hind tibial superior spur as long as first tarsal segment; latter nearly as long as following three combined. Male: fore tibiae spur stout and inwardly curved apically; aedeagus Fig. 2–3 . Female: fore tibial spur slender, acuminate and almost straight. Type material. MEXICO : Oaxaca : Llano de las Flores , 17°26’37.1”N- 096°30’13.2”W , Carretera Tuxtepec, Oaxaca ; m 2600, 01.XII. 2003, leg. Martínez I. & M. T . Suarez ( holotype , male, and allotype DCGI ; 1 paratype , male FSCA ) ; Las Cumbres , Carretera Zachila , San Miguel Peras , m 2500, 05.VIII. 2000, leg. Martínez I. & Reyes-Castillo P. ( 1 paratype , male DCGI ) . Distribution. Mexico ( Oaxaca ). Etymology. Named in honor of one of its collectors, Maria Teresa Suarez, of Instituto de Ecologia, Xalapa, Veracruz , Mexico . Biology. Almost unknown; the few specimens of the type series were collected in August and in December.