Description of a new species of the stag beetle genus Auxicerus Waterhouse, 1883 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae)
Author
Perger, Robert
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Author
Grossi, Paschoal Coelho
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Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Departamento de Agronomia / Fitossanidade, Laboratório de Taxonomia de Insetos, Rua Manoel Medeiros, s / n, Dois Irmãos 52171 - 900 - Recife, PE, Brazil. & Email: paschoal. grossi @ gmail. com & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 5347 A 9 A 1 - F 9 DD- 44 E 8 - ABB 8 - 2542 E 8 EDF 1 FB
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Author
Guerra, Fernando
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Colección Boliviana de Fauna, Casilla 10077, Correo Central, La Paz, Bolivia. & Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Casilla 10077, Correo Central, La Paz, Bolivia. & Email: ferguerrafideo @ yahoo. com & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 35 C 6845 C- 9 FC 8 - 4541 - B 329 - 82 FC 44 FE 0 DF 7
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2017
2017-03-21
302
1
10
journal article
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10.5852/ejt.2017.302
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Auxicerus aethiops
Jakowleff, 1900
Auxicerus aethiops
Jakowleff 1900: 38
.
Material examined
Holotype
BOLIVIA
:
♂
[no other data], BL
16 mm
(
ZIRAS
).
Remarks
In his revision of the genus
Auxicerus
,
Weinreich (1963)
did not examine the types of
A. platyceps
and
A. aethiops
and considered
A. aethiops
quite similar to
A. platyceps
.
However, the
holotype
of
A. aethiops
has comparatively longer mandibles in combination with a narrow head and a less acute ocular canthus and lacks the longitudinal depressions on the pronotal disc (compare
Fig. 2
A–B). Additionally, in
A. aethiops
the elytral surface is entirely shiny and uniformly punctate (in
A. platyceps
the elytral surface is shiny only along the suture, elsewhere opaque; and the punctures are larger near the suture). Thus,
A. aethiops
is considered here as a valid species.
Geographical distribution
Bolivia
.