A new species of the genus Scybalocanthon (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) from the Atlantic rainforest, with an identification key to the species from South America south of the Amazon basin
Author
Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z.
Author
Silva, Fernando A. B.
text
Zootaxa
2017
4300
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4300.1.9
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Key to the
Scybalocanthon
species from South America south Amazon basin
1. Legs with yellow and black coloration along its length........................................................2
- Legs completely dark brown or black..................................
S. zischkai
(
BOLIVIA
,
Cochabamba
; Fig. 3).
2. Elytral surface with yellow and black coloration.............................................................3
- Elytra completely dark brown or black......................
S. korasakiae
(
BRAZIL
,
Minas Gerais
,
São Paulo
; Fig. 3).
3. Elytra with yellow horizontal band on its central portion occupying approximately one-third of elytral length (
Fig. 1
); metepis- ternae dark brown or black (
Fig. 2
); anterior and posterior margins of pronotum with triangular black spot on the middle por- tion (
Fig. 1
)........................................................
S. batesi
sp. nov
.
(BRAZIL, Bahia; Fig. 3).
- Most of elytral surface yellow, black coloration restrict to elytral edge; metepisternae and pronotum yellow.........................................
S. nigriceps
(
BRAZIL
: Paraná,
Rio de Janeiro
and São Paulo;
PARAGUAY
:
Caazapa
; Fig. 3).