Systematic revision of the species of Geomyphilus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae) of Mexico and neighboring countries with description of a new Mexican species
Author
Dellacasa, Marco
Author
Dellacasa, Giovanni
Author
Skelley, Paul E.
Author
Gordon, Robert D.
text
Insecta Mundi
2017
2017-12-29
2017
590
1
19
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5169501
1942-1354
5169501
749655B7-5F26-4C47-9292-F97C5AAE59FF
Geomyphilus insolitus
(
Brown, 1928
)
(
Fig. 21–25
)
Aphodius
(
Platyderides
)
insolitus
Brown, 1928: 18
;
Dellacasa 1988: 314
.
Geomyphilus insolitus
;
Gordon and Skelley 2007: 399
.
Type
locality.
Payne Co.,
Oklahoma
[
U.S.A.
].
Type
repository.
Canadian National Collection. Ottawa (
type
not examined).
Redescription.
Length 4.5–6.0 mm; elongate-oblong, moderately convex, shiny, glabrous. Pale reddish brown; head posteriorly and pronotal disc more or less widely brownish; legs and antennal club pale reddish brown. Head with epistome moderately convex on disc, toward clypeal margin sparsely minutely granulate; finely, rather closely and somewhat irregularly punctured postero-medially; clypeus feebly sinuate at middle, obtusely round at sides, lateral margins arcuate, thinly bordered, edge reflexed and glabrous; genae broadly round, ciliate, not protruding from the eyes; front rather finely, irregularly punctured. Pronotum moderately convex, shallowly depressed near posterior angles, dually punctured; large coarse punctures, ten times or more larger than small, irregularly scattered throughout, denser near hind angles, closer on sides, sparser on disc; small, very fine punctures not closely, evenly sparse throughout; anterior angles broadly round; lateral margins rather subparallel toward base and slightly inwardly sinuate before hind angles, thinly bordered, edge glabrous; hind angles obtusely round, base regularly arcuate, finely bordered. Scutellum distinctly punctured on basal half. Elytra slightly broader posteriorly; striae fine, rather closely punctured, subcrenulate; interstriae almost flat, very finely and sparsely punctured. Hind tibiae upper spur somewhat shorter than first tarsal segment; latter as long as following three segments combined. Male: pronotum relatively less convex, more transverse, more sparsely punctured; fore tibiae spur stout; inferior spur of middle tibiae shortened and obliquely truncate apically; aedeagus
Fig. 24–25
. Female: pronotum relatively more convex, less transverse, more densely punctured; fore tibiae spur slender; middle tibiae inferior spur acuminate.
Material examined.
U.S.A.
:
Illinois
:
4 mi.
NW of Hopkins Pk.
,
Kankakee Co.
,
29.IV.1948
, leg
H. F. Dybas
&
R. F. Inger
, ex a fecal chamber of
Geomys bursarius illinoensis
(
1 ex.
,
DCGI
)
;
Hopkins
Park,
Kankakee Co.
, reared from larvae collected ex fecal chamber of
Geomys bursarius illinoensis
, adults emerged on
25.V.1951
; leg.
H. F. Dybas
&
R. F. Inger
(2 exx.,
DCGI
);
Indiana
:
3 mi.
S. jct.
Hwy
10 &
Sr.
55, on
Sr.
55,
Newton Co.
,
29.IX–08.XII.1991
, leg.
P. Kovarik
,
Geomys
burrow
pitfall
(
1 ex.
,
DCGI
)
;
Oklahoma
:
vcty.
Wilburton
,
Latimer Co.
,
19-21.XII.1991
, leg.
K. Stephan
&
P. Skelley
(206 exx.,
DCGI
)
.